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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

Exercises


Now it's time to review all the concepts in this chapter:

  1. What do you think is lying ahead after the serverless era?
  2. What is the next generation of computing you might probably be thinking of?
  3. What is the feature of libcontainer that allows rootless execution?
  4. What are the namespaces provided by Linux?
  5. Explain why RunF is able to access the network services when running inside other containers.
  6. What is the benefit of using LinuxKit to prepare an infrastructure.
  7. What is a declarative approach to containers? How could it apply to other application platforms, beside Java?
  8. How could we design a hybrid serverless architecture when we would like to access services from outside the organization?