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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


This chapter covers a lot of practices and hacks to make the whole stack of the demo project, a mobile payment system, work. Please go through the content of all the sections in this chapter:

  1. Why do we need to hack the Fn to build a custom version of an Fn server?
  2. What is the concept of inter-FaaS platform networking? Why is it important?
  3. What are the two roles of an Ethereum block in the demo project?
  4. What is the data type of the parameters of an OpenWhisk function?
  5. How can we encode JSON in Java with Fn?
  6. How can we encode JSON in Golang?
  7. What is the Parse platform?
  8. What is the role of Parse WebHook?
  9. What is the concept of a Glue function?
  10. How can we write a function to wrap a legacy web-based application?