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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

Contributors

About the author

Chanwit Kaewkasi is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. He started contributing code to the Docker Swarm project in its early day around 0.1. Later in 2016, he led the Swarm2K project together with contributors around the world to form the largest Docker Swarm cluster. Beside teaching and doing research in the field of software engineering, he provides consulting to several companies to help them adopt Docker, microservices, and FaaS technologies.

He currently serves the Docker community as a Docker Captain.

I would like to thank my wife, Pitchaya, for her endless support and encouragement. I also would like to thank my workplace, Suranaree University of Technology, to allow me to write this book as an academic work. My special thanks go to the editor team at Packt for their hard work, and to my reviewers for their invaluable comments. This book is dedicated to my parents, and all of my teachers.

About the reviewer

Fabrizio Soppelsa works as a software engineer for Samsung, in the Next Platform and Containerization team. He spends most of his time integrating cloud components and making them perform faster. He’s also an active Docker and Kubernetes contributor, and a Docker community leader. He has published Native Docker clustering with Swarm for Packt.

In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with Anna, playing Go, traveling and taking care of his Russian canary Rambo.

 

 

 

 

 

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