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DevOps for Serverless Applications

You're reading from   DevOps for Serverless Applications Design, deploy, and monitor your serverless applications using DevOps practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623445
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shashikant Bangera Shashikant Bangera
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Serverless FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Serverless Frameworks 3. Applying DevOps to AWS Lambda Applications 4. DevOps with Azure Functions 5. Integrating DevOps with IBM OpenWhisk 6. DevOps with Google Functions 7. Adding DevOps Flavor to Kubeless 8. Best Practices and the Future of DevOps with Serverless 9. Use Cases and Add-Ons 10. DevOps Trends with Serverless Functions 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google Functions add-ons


When we decide to move toward a cloud infrastructure or decide to use Google Functions, then we start with a proof of concept or minimal viable product, to prove our application can perform better in the cloud and that we do not have to worry about infrastructure. Also, if the number of the functions is small at the the time of POC, it is easier to develop, test, and deploy them manually, but as they grow, it become quite difficult to manage development, testing and development. Integrating them together to work as an application is another challenge. So, for smoother development, Google also has introduced the Node.js emulator for Google cloud functions. Although currently it is released as the alpha phase, it is still good to iron out quite a number of the issues locally. 

The Node.js emulator for Google Functions is distributed as an npm standard package, so it has to be installed through the npm command:

$ npm install -g @google-cloud/functions-emulator

After installation...

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