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Docker for Serverless Applications

By : Chanwit Kaewkasi
Book Image

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

Chapter 8. Putting Them All Together

In this chapter, we will walk through an example to demonstrate serverless platforms working together on a Docker cluster, and we will demonstrate several serverless/FaaS use cases.

We will discuss a mobile payment scenario and implement it using functions but, unusually at this level of infrastructure, we will connect all three FaaS platforms together. The main ideas demonstrated by the content of this chapter are the concept of using functions as a Glue, using functions to wrap the legacy web-based application, and using functions as a data stream processing program.

In the next section, we will start with the settings and scenario used by this chapter.

The topics covered in this chapter are:

  • A mobile payment scenario
  • A Parse platform as a backend
  • Preparing a WebHook in Fn
  • An event state machine with a blockchain
  • Wrapping a legacy with a function
  • Using a function as a Glue
  • A stream processor
  • Inter-FaaS platform networking