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Docker for Serverless Applications

By : Chanwit Kaewkasi
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Docker for Serverless Applications

By: Chanwit Kaewkasi

Overview of this book

Serverless applications have gained a lot of popularity among developers and are currently the buzzwords in the tech market. Docker and serverless are two terms that go hand-in-hand. This book will start by explaining serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) concepts, and why they are important. Then, it will introduce the concepts of containerization and how Docker fits into the Serverless ideology. It will explore the architectures and components of three major Docker-based FaaS platforms, how to deploy and how to use their CLI. Then, this book will discuss how to set up and operate a production-grade Docker cluster. We will cover all concepts of FaaS frameworks with practical use cases, followed by deploying and orchestrating these serverless systems using Docker. Finally, we will also explore advanced topics and prototypes for FaaS architectures in the last chapter. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build and deploy your own FaaS platform using Docker.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter started off by discussing the concepts of containers. Then we reviewed what Docker is, how to install it, and the Docker build, ship, and run workflow. We then learnt how to form a Docker Swarm cluster and Swarm master and worker nodes. We learnt how to properly set up a robust Swarm cluster with an odd number of master nodes. We then learnt the service and task concepts of Docker Swarm. Finally, we learnt how Docker fits into serverless application development.

In the next chapter, we will review serverless frameworks and platforms to understand the overall architecture and the limitations of them.