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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

Installing Kubeless

Once the Minikube Kubernetes environment is ready, we can install Kubeless on top of the Kubernetes cluster. Installing Kubeless consists of installing three components:

  • The Kubeless framework
  • The Kubeless CLI
  • The Kubeless UI

The Kubeless framework will install all the extensions on top of Kubernetes to support Kubeless features. This includes CRDs, custom controllers, and deployments. The Kubeless CLI is used to interact with the Kubeless framework for tasks such as deploying functions, invoking functions, and creating triggers. The Kubeless UI is a GUI for the Kubeless framework, which will help you to view, edit, and run functions.

Installing the Kubeless Framework

We are going to install Kubeless version 1.0.3, which is the latest available release at the time of writing this book.

First, we need to create the kubeless namespace using kubectl create namespace. This is the default namespace used by Kubeless to store all its objects...