Introduction to Serverless with Kubernetes

In the previous chapter, we extensively studied the various setup options and platforms used in Kubernetes. We also covered the autoscaling feature of Kubernetes and implemented it in an application deployed on a cluster.

Kubernetes and serverless are two of the trending topics in the IT industry, but these two topics are often discussed independently of each other. Kubernetes is a platform for managing containerized applications, and serverless is an execution model that abstracts away the infrastructure so software developers can focus on their application logic. However, a combination of these two concepts will achieve the same goal of making the software developer's life much easier.

A few platforms have emerged recently that bring serverless features to containers by abstracting away the complexities of managing containers and any underlying infrastructure. These platforms run serverless workloads on Kubernetes clusters and...