This chapter will discuss another player in the serverless space, OpenWhisk. The chapter will start with an overview of the OpenWhisk platform, its design rationale, and features. After that, the chapter will go through the steps of deploying a local instance of OpenWhisk for function development, how to use its command-line interface, its components and architecture, and how to prepare functions to deploy on the platform.
Docker for Serverless Applications
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Docker for Serverless Applications
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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
Free Chapter
Serverless and Docker
Docker and Swarm Clusters
Serverless Frameworks
OpenFaaS on Docker
The Fn Project
OpenWhisk on Docker
Operating FaaS Clusters
Putting Them All Together
The Future of Serverless
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index
Customer Reviews