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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

You're reading from Kubernetes for Serverless Applications Implement FaaS by effectively deploying, managing, monitoring, and orchestrating serverless applications using Kubernetes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788620376

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Apache OpenWhisk

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. The Serverless Landscape FREE CHAPTER

2. An Introduction to Kubernetes

3. Installing Kubernetes Locally

4. Introducing Kubeless Functioning

5. Using Funktion for Serverless Applications

6. Installing Kubernetes in the Cloud

7. Apache OpenWhisk and Kubernetes

8. Launching Applications Using Fission

9. Looking at OpenFaaS

10. Serverless Considerations

11. Running Serverless Workloads

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An overview of Kubernetes

Now that we have an idea of how Kubernetes came to be, we should walk through all of the different components that go to make up a typical Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes itself is written in Go. While the project's GitHub page shows that the project is currently 84.9% Go, the rest, 5.8% HTML, 4.7% Python, and 3.3% Shell (with the remainder being configuration/spec files, and so on), are all documentation and helper scripts.

Note

Go is a programming language developed and open sourced by Google who describes it as A fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. For more information, see https://golang.org/.

Components

There are two main server roles with Kubernetes: masters and nodes; each of these roles is made up of several components.

Master servers are the brains of the cluster and they make decisions on where pods (more on those in the next section) are deployed within the cluster, as well as acting on and looking...

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Authors (1)

Russ McKendrick

Russ McKendrick

Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations. He works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!

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