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Docker for Serverless Applications

You're reading from   Docker for Serverless Applications Containerize and orchestrate functions using OpenFaas, OpenWhisk, and Fn

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835268
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chanwit Kaewkasi Chanwit Kaewkasi
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Serverless and Docker FREE CHAPTER 2. Docker and Swarm Clusters 3. Serverless Frameworks 4. OpenFaaS on Docker 5. The Fn Project 6. OpenWhisk on Docker 7. Operating FaaS Clusters 8. Putting Them All Together 9. The Future of Serverless 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is OpenWhisk?

Donated to the Apache foundation, OpenWhisk is a robust FaaS platform originally developed by IBM and Adobe. Built atop Docker container technologies, OpenWhisk can be deployed in the cloud or on on-premises hardware. It is a platform that frees developers from worrying about managing the life cycle of their code or operations of the container runtimes that execute the code. OpenWhisk is designed to be scalable and to support massive numbers of function invocations. Currently, OpenWhisk is the engine behind IBM Cloud Functions.

The OpenWhisk scaling mechanism is not built on top of Docker Swarm or Kubernetes schedulers. It plugs directly into each Docker instance to start and scale function containers. With this design, OpenWhisk fits better with the plain Docker infrastructure than Kubernetes.

For developers, OpenWhisk provides a number of compelling features...

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