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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By : Russ McKendrick
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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has established itself as the standard platform for container management, orchestration, and deployment. It has been adopted by companies such as Google, its original developers, and Microsoft as an integral part of their public cloud platforms, so that you can develop for Kubernetes and not worry about being locked into a single vendor. This book will initially start by introducing serverless functions. Then you will configure tools such as Minikube to run Kubernetes. Once you are up-and-running, you will install and configure Kubeless, your first step towards running Function as a Service (FaaS) on Kubernetes. Then you will gradually move towards running Fission, a framework used for managing serverless functions on Kubernetes environments. Towards the end of the book, you will also work with Kubernetes functions on public and private clouds. By the end of this book, we will have mastered using Function as a Service on Kubernetes environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Launching Kubernetes on the Google Cloud Platform

As you would expect, Kubernetes is supported natively on Google Cloud. Before progressing, you will need an account, which you can sign up for at http://cloud.google.com/. Once you have your account set up, similar to the other public cloud platforms we have been looking at in this chapter, we need to configure the command-line tools.

Installing the command-line tools

There are installers for all three operating systems. If you are using macOS High Sierra then you can use Homebrew and Cask to install the Google Cloud SDK by running the following:

$ brew cask install google-cloud-sdk

Windows 10 Professional users can use Chocolatey and run the following:

$ choco install gcloudsdk...