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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

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By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

The fourth edition of the bestseller Mastering Kubernetes includes the most recent tools and code to enable you to learn the latest features of Kubernetes 1.25. This book contains a thorough exploration of complex concepts and best practices to help you master the skills of designing and deploying large-scale distributed systems on Kubernetes clusters. You’ll learn how to run complex stateless and stateful microservices on Kubernetes, including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backends. In addition, you’ll understand how to utilize serverless computing and service meshes. Further, two new chapters have been added. “Governing Kubernetes” covers the problem of policy management, how admission control addresses it, and how policy engines provide a powerful governance solution. “Running Kubernetes in Production” shows you what it takes to run Kubernetes at scale across multiple cloud providers, multiple geographical regions, and multiple clusters, and it also explains how to handle topics such as upgrades, capacity planning, dealing with cloud provider limits/quotas, and cost management. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll have a strong understanding of, and hands-on experience with, a wide range of Kubernetes capabilities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Kubernetes Function-as-a-Service frameworks

Let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room - FaaS. The Kubernetes Job and CronJob are great, and cluster autoscaling and cloud providers managing the infrastructure is awesome. Knative with its scale to zero and traffic routing is super cool. But, what about the actual FaaS? Fear not, Kubernetes has many options here - maybe too many options. There are many FaaS frameworks for Kubernetes:

  • Fission
  • Kubeless
  • OpenFaaS
  • OpenWhisk
  • Riff (built on top of Knative)
  • Nuclio
  • BlueNimble
  • Fn
  • Rainbond

Some of these frameworks have a lot of traction and some of them don’t. Two of the most prominent frameworks I discussed in the previous edition of the book, Kubeless and Riff, have been archived (Riff calls itself complete).

We will look into a few of the more popular options that are still active. In particular we will look at OpenFaaS and Fission.

OpenFaaS

OpenFaaS...