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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)

An introduction to OpenFaaS

OpenFaaS was started in December 2016 by Alex Ellis, just over a year to the day before I am writing this. Initially, it was designed to work with Docker swarm.

Docker swarm is Docker's own clustering technology; it allows you to link some hosts running the Docker Engine together. On the face of it, Docker swarm is quite similar to Kubernetes. However, the further you delve into the workings of both technologies, you will find that they not only work differently, but also have been designed to fill different gaps.

Since its first commit in December 2016, OpenFaaS has gotten a lot of attention from the Docker world. Ellis and the other OpenFaaS community members have spoken at DockerCon Europe, Moby Summit, KubeCon, and Gluecon, as well as numerous meetups over the course of the last 12 months. OpenFaaS was also included in the InfoWorld Bossie...