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Serverless Architectures with Kubernetes

By : Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra
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Serverless Architectures with Kubernetes

By: Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has established itself as the standard platform for container management, orchestration, and deployment. By learning Kubernetes, you’ll be able to design your own serverless architecture by implementing the function-as-a-service (FaaS) model. After an accelerated, hands-on overview of the serverless architecture and various Kubernetes concepts, you’ll cover a wide range of real-world development challenges faced by real-world developers, and explore various techniques to overcome them. You’ll learn how to create production-ready Kubernetes clusters and run serverless applications on them. You'll see how Kubernetes platforms and serverless frameworks such as Kubeless, Apache OpenWhisk and OpenFaaS provide the tooling to help you develop serverless applications on Kubernetes. You'll also learn ways to select the appropriate framework for your upcoming project. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills and confidence to design your own serverless applications using the power and flexibility of Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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2. Introduction to Serverless in the Cloud

9. Going Serverless with OpenFaaS

Activity 9: OpenFaaS Form Processor

Solution

  1. First, you need to create a SendGrid account and generate an API key. You can use the same API key created in the activity from Chapter 08, Introduction to Apache OpenWhisk. Refer to steps 4-7 in the activity of Chapter 08, Introduction to Apache OpenWhisk on how to create a SendGrid account and generate an API key.
  2. Create an OpenFaaS function named contact-form using the python3 template. This will be the frontend of the contact form:
    $ faas-cli new contact-form --lang=python3

    The output should be as follows:

    Figure 9.59: Creating the contact-form function
  3. Create a new directory named html inside the contact-form directory to store the HTML files:
    $ mkdir contact-form/html

    The output should be as follows:

    Figure 9.60: Creating the HTML folder
  4. Create the contact-us.html file inside the contact-form/html folder with the code provided in step 2.
  5. Update the handler.py Python file inside...