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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By : Alexander Raul
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By: Alexander Raul

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container orchestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You’ll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
11
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production
16
Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

Implementing serverless on Kubernetes

Serverless patterns on cloud providers have quickly been gaining in popularity. Serverless architectures consist of compute that can automatically scale up and down, even scaling all the way to zero (where zero compute capacity is being used to serve a function or other application). Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an extension of the serverless pattern, where function code is the only input, and the serverless system takes care of routing requests to compute and scale as necessary. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Run are some of the more popular FaaS/serverless options officially supported by cloud providers. Kubernetes also has many different serverless frameworks and libraries that can be used to run serverless, scale-to-zero workloads as well as FaaS on Kubernetes. Some of the most popular ones are as follows:

  • Knative
  • Kubeless
  • OpenFaaS
  • Fission

A full discussion of all serverless options on Kubernetes...