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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By : Russ McKendrick
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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has established itself as the standard platform for container management, orchestration, and deployment. It has been adopted by companies such as Google, its original developers, and Microsoft as an integral part of their public cloud platforms, so that you can develop for Kubernetes and not worry about being locked into a single vendor. This book will initially start by introducing serverless functions. Then you will configure tools such as Minikube to run Kubernetes. Once you are up-and-running, you will install and configure Kubeless, your first step towards running Function as a Service (FaaS) on Kubernetes. Then you will gradually move towards running Fission, a framework used for managing serverless functions on Kubernetes environments. Towards the end of the book, you will also work with Kubernetes functions on public and private clouds. By the end of this book, we will have mastered using Function as a Service on Kubernetes environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at Fission. We have installed it using Helm and deployed it both locally and in Google Cloud. We have also launched several test applications, some basic and some that call out to third-party services to both post and return information. During the installation and configuration of the example applications, I hope that you started to see the usefulness of Fission and how it, and other serverless technologies, can be integrated into your own applications.

When I started writing the chapter, I hoped to include some sections on Fission workflows, and also the Fission UI. However, at the time of writing, both those add-ons failed to work. Now, don't get me wrong, Fission is a powerful and simple to use technology; however, it is very new and is still in development, as is Kubernetes—this means that until the code bases get more...