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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

Serverless Framework


Serverless Framework is one of the most popular frameworks for building serverless architectures. It is an open source CLI, with about 23,000 stars on GitHub. There is also an enterprise edition that helps in setting up templates and providing support. This framework has been used by many companies, such as EA, Coca Cola, Expedia, and Reuters. It is a framework that supports lots of cloud service providers, such as AWS, Azure, Google, OpenWhisk, Kubeless, Oracle Fn, and many others. It has a very well-documented user guide containing quite a large number of examples to help you start using it. It supports lots of languages, such as Node.js, Python, Java, Scala, C#, Go, F#, Groovy, Kotlin, PHP, and Swift.

It supports the life cycle of serverless architecture, which can build, deploy, update, and delete. It supports function grouping for easy management of code, processes, and resources across large projects, and also provides fairly good support for CD/CI. It has far better...