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Docker for Serverless Applications

By : Chanwit Kaewkasi
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Docker for Serverless Applications

By: Chanwit Kaewkasi

Overview of this book

Serverless applications have gained a lot of popularity among developers and are currently the buzzwords in the tech market. Docker and serverless are two terms that go hand-in-hand. This book will start by explaining serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) concepts, and why they are important. Then, it will introduce the concepts of containerization and how Docker fits into the Serverless ideology. It will explore the architectures and components of three major Docker-based FaaS platforms, how to deploy and how to use their CLI. Then, this book will discuss how to set up and operate a production-grade Docker cluster. We will cover all concepts of FaaS frameworks with practical use cases, followed by deploying and orchestrating these serverless systems using Docker. Finally, we will also explore advanced topics and prototypes for FaaS architectures in the last chapter. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build and deploy your own FaaS platform using Docker.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter introduced OpenWhisk, especially when we utilized Docker as parts of its ecosystem. OpenWhisk is a fully featured, fault-tolerant, and polyglot serverless platform that allows you to virtually run functions written in any language.

This chapter walked through its components and architecture, and discussed how to use the wsk CLI to prepare, create, and invoke OpenWhisk functions. This chapter also introduced SuraWhisk, a web UI for OpenWhisk to help us manage and invoke OpenWhisk's actions more easily.

We have learned all about three major FaaS platforms. In the next chapter, we will discuss how to prepare and operate a Docker cluster to provision and administrate FaaS platforms on it.