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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

AWS Lambda use cases and add-ons


Our journey so far has been about what AWS Lambda is , and how we can build ,test, deploy, monitor, and log it. We also looked at some best practices for AWS Lambda in general and also for DevOps. So now, here in this chapter, it is time to bring them all together as one use case. Before we cover the use case for DevOps with AWS Lambda, let's start to first look at use cases where Lambda can be efficiently used and then let's look at how DevOps can make life easier for developers and business users. 

AWS Lambda use cases

As we know, serverless architecture was introduced to help businesses to focus on application development and not to worry about the underlying servers. Reducing the cost and shortening the deployment cycle, the adoption rate for serverless is growing exponentially. Now lots of companies are adopting serverless as a way to ensure rapid auto scaling and descaling. Let's look at some of the useful applications of serverless that are being adopted...