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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

ClaudiaJS


ClaudiaJS is one of the earliest of the deployment frameworks and tools. It is licensed under open source, and, at the time writing, it only supports AWS Lambda. ClaudiaJS is a Node.js library that helps to deploy Node.js projects on to AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It currently supports just the Node.js language. ClaudiaJS claims that it is not a framework, but a deployment tool, so the developer just calls it ClaudiaJS within their code and does not have to change their code structure. ClaudiaJS is built on top of AWS SDK and AWS CLI. It flags three types of JavaScript libraries:

  • Command-line library
  • API builder library
  • Bot builder library

Command-line library

The first JavaScript library is a command-line tool or library. The command-line tool helps to deploy, update, roll back, package, invoke or test, and destroy Lambda functions, and it also works seamlessly with AWS API Gateway. It uses the standard npm packaging conventions, which just means that you can call it without making...