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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

Kubeless HTTP Triggers

In the previous sections, we discussed how to invoke Kubeless functions using the Kubeless CLI. In this section, we are going to demonstrate how to expose these functions to everyone by creating HTTP triggers.

HTTP triggers are used to execute a Kubeless function through HTTP(S)-based invocations such as HTTP GET or POST requests. When a function is deployed, Kubeless will create a Kubernetes service associated with the function with the ClusterIP as the service type; however, these services are not publicly accessible. In order to make the function publicly available, we need to create a Kubeless HTTP trigger. This will expose the Kubeless functions to everyone by using Kubernetes ingress rules.

In order to run the HTTP trigger, your Kubernetes cluster must have a running ingress controller. Once the ingress controller is running in the Kubernetes cluster, you can use the kubeless trigger http create command to create an HTTP trigger:

$ kubeless trigger...