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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)

Installing Kubernetes in the Cloud

So far, we have been running Kubernetes on our local machines. This does have some drawbacks, one of which is processing power. We are going to start looking at some more complex and powerful frameworks, so we need some additional power. Because of this, we are going to look at installing Kubernetes on a few different public clouds, each time using a different tool:

  • Launching Kubernetes in DigitalOcean
  • Launching Kubernetes in AWS
  • Launching Kubernetes in Microsoft Azure
  • Launching Kubernetes on the Google Cloud Platform

We will then take a look at the differences between public cloud providers and look at installing Kubeless on one of the platforms.