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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By : Russ McKendrick
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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has established itself as the standard platform for container management, orchestration, and deployment. It has been adopted by companies such as Google, its original developers, and Microsoft as an integral part of their public cloud platforms, so that you can develop for Kubernetes and not worry about being locked into a single vendor. This book will initially start by introducing serverless functions. Then you will configure tools such as Minikube to run Kubernetes. Once you are up-and-running, you will install and configure Kubeless, your first step towards running Function as a Service (FaaS) on Kubernetes. Then you will gradually move towards running Fission, a framework used for managing serverless functions on Kubernetes environments. Towards the end of the book, you will also work with Kubernetes functions on public and private clouds. By the end of this book, we will have mastered using Function as a Service on Kubernetes environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter we have deployed Kubeless onto our single-node Kubernetes, which we launched with Minikube. We installed the Kubernetes command-line client and web-based interface. Once the cluster was deployed and tools installed, we deployed and executed functions on our Kubeless installation.

We worked through installing two basic test functions before installing a more useful function that posts tweets. We then looked at how we can interact with Kubeless using the Serverless framework.

In the next chapter, we are going to be looking at an event-based framework called Funktion.