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DevOps for Serverless Applications

By : Shashikant Bangera
Book Image

DevOps for Serverless Applications

By: Shashikant Bangera

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular among developers and are generating a buzz in the tech market. Many organizations struggle with the effective implementation of DevOps with serverless applications. DevOps for Serverless Applications takes you through different DevOps-related scenarios to give you a solid foundation in serverless deployment. You will start by understanding the concepts of serverless architecture and development, and why they are important. Then, you will get to grips with the DevOps ideology and gain an understanding of how it fits into the Serverless Framework. You'll cover deployment framework building and deployment with CI and CD pipelines for serverless applications. You will also explore log management and issue reporting in the serverless environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn important security tips and best practices for secure pipeline management. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to effectively build a complete CI and CD delivery pipeline with log management for serverless applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Integrating DevOps with IBM OpenWhisk
Index

OpenWhisk


OpenWhisk is an incubator project of Apache and IBM. It offers an open source and on-cloud  serverless platform through the IBM Bluemix portal. We can set this up on premises or directly use the cloud model. The commercial side of  OpenWhisk is provided by IBM on Bluemix, and the open source version can be provisioned as on-premises Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), as well as on a cloud, such as Bluemix, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, or GCP. The open source version is available on GitHub. It is been made public through the Apache license, and people can contribute to it. 

Note

For the open source OpenWhisk version on GitHub, go to https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/tree/master/docs#getting-started-with-openwhisk

Like any other serverless offering, OpenWhisk executes small chunks of codes that are called actions (that is, functions) at the triggering of events. Events can originate from Bluemix or external sources. It is also claimed by OpenWhisk that it allows the integration...