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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)

Using Funktion for Serverless Applications

Before we move on to launching a Kubernetes cluster in a public cloud, we are going to take a look at one more local example; this time we will be looking at Funktion. We will be covering the following subjects:

  • Introducing Funktion
  • Installing and configuring Funktion
  • Running our first function using Funktion
  • A Twitter flow

Before we walk through installing and configuring Funktion, we should take a moment to discuss what it does, as it is a little different from the other frameworks covered in this book.