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Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230085
Pages 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Safeer CM Safeer CM
Profile icon Safeer CM

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Serverless Essentials
2. Chapter 1: Serverless Computing and Function as a Service 3. Chapter 2: Backend as a Service and Powerful Serverless Platforms 4. Part 2 – Platforms and Solutions in Action
5. Chapter 3: Serverless Solutions in AWS 6. Chapter 4: Serverless Solutions in Azure 7. Chapter 5: Serverless Solutions in GCP 8. Chapter 6: Serverless Cloudflare 9. Chapter 7: Kubernetes, Knative and OpenFaaS 10. Chapter 8: Self-Hosted FaaS with Apache OpenWhisk 11. Part 3 – Design, Build, and Operate Serverless
12. Chapter 9: Implementing DevOps Practices for Serverless 13. Chapter 10: Serverless Security, Observability, and Best Practices 14. Chapter 11: Architectural and Design Patterns for Serverless 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Kubernetes, Knative and OpenFaaS

Docker and Kubernetes have revolutionized the application and infrastructure world. While Docker facilitated the containerization of applications with ease, Kubernetes took it to the next level. Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform. It is open source, widely popular, and highly extensible. The biggest advantage is that it can run across all public and private clouds as well as data centers.

Kubernetes allows running containerized applications at scale and has become a favorite of developers and infrastructure operators alike. With the wider acceptance of serverless technologies, it was inevitable that serverless platforms that work with Kubernetes would be developed and deployed. There are several platforms that can run on top of Kubernetes and provide serverless services. Some of them provide simple FaaS services while others provide a complete event processing system. For this chapter, we have picked...

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