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Mastering Kubernetes - Third Edition

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Mastering Kubernetes - Third Edition

By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

The third edition of Mastering Kubernetes is updated with the latest tools and code enabling you to learn Kubernetes 1.18’s latest features. This book primarily concentrates on diving deeply into complex concepts and Kubernetes best practices to help you master the skills of designing and deploying large clusters on various cloud platforms. The book trains you to run complex stateful microservices on Kubernetes including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backend. With the two new chapters, you will gain expertise in serverless computing and utilizing service meshes. As you proceed through the chapters, you will explore different options for network configuration and learn to set up, operate, and troubleshoot Kubernetes networking plugins through real-world use cases. Furthermore, you will understand the mechanisms of custom resource development and its utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will graduate from an intermediate to advanced Kubernetes professional.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Kubernetes FaaS frameworks

Let's acknowledge the elephant in the room – FaaS. The Kubernetes Job and CronJob are great, and having cluster autoscaling and cloud providers managing the infrastructure is awesome. Knative, with its scale-to-zero and traffic routing functionalities, is super cool. But what about actual FaaS? Fear not – Kubernetes has many options here. Maybe too many options. There are more than ten FaaS frameworks for Kubernetes:

  • Fission
  • Kubeless
  • FaaS
  • OpenWhisk
  • Riff (built on top of Knative)
  • Nuclio
  • Funktion
  • BlueNimble
  • Fn
  • Gestalt
  • Rainbond
  • IronFunctions

We will look into a few of the more popular options.

Fission

Fission (https://fission.io/) is a mature and well-documented framework. It models the FaaS world as environments, functions, and triggers. Environments are needed to build and run your function code for the specific languages. Each language environment...