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DevOps for Serverless Applications

By : Shashikant Bangera
Book Image

DevOps for Serverless Applications

By: Shashikant Bangera

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular among developers and are generating a buzz in the tech market. Many organizations struggle with the effective implementation of DevOps with serverless applications. DevOps for Serverless Applications takes you through different DevOps-related scenarios to give you a solid foundation in serverless deployment. You will start by understanding the concepts of serverless architecture and development, and why they are important. Then, you will get to grips with the DevOps ideology and gain an understanding of how it fits into the Serverless Framework. You'll cover deployment framework building and deployment with CI and CD pipelines for serverless applications. You will also explore log management and issue reporting in the serverless environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn important security tips and best practices for secure pipeline management. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to effectively build a complete CI and CD delivery pipeline with log management for serverless applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Integrating DevOps with IBM OpenWhisk
Index

The direction of DevOps with serverless


When there was no DevOps, development and operation worked in silos, leading to poor teamwork and a lack of transparency. Operations processes were painstakingly slow, with no control over environment consolidation, and with the DevOps team consolidated into one single team working together in the application lifecycle and automation through the technology stack and tooling. DevOps became the backbone of the organization and also an integral part of time to market. 

But DevOps has its own challenges to implement. First and foremost, as DevOps is a vast area of expertise, it is very difficult to find  or experts in every aspect of DevOps. Because of this, organizations find it difficult to adopt DevOps easily, and it also leads to confusion in proper implementation. 

Tool selection for DevOps is another challenge on it own. Continuous deployment, continuous testing, and collaborative reporting makes DevOps successful. But many organizations fumble tool...