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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Serverless and Docker 2. Docker and Swarm Clusters FREE CHAPTER 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

A mobile payment scenario

We are using a mobile payment with a money transfer allowed between two banks as the scenario for this chapter. With the money transfer, the business logic is easy to understand. So, we do not need to worry about this part. Let's focus on the complexity of the architecture.

Money transfer between two different banks with different underlying implementations is hard. This is because we cannot directly apply the concept of traditional transactions to cope with external systems. The system is presented in the following diagram:

Figure 8.1: The overall block diagram of the mobile payment system

What are we not covering in this chapter?

The UI parts are out beyond scope of this book, so they are not available. The Receipt Generator and the Receipt Storage are optional. They are left for you to implement, if interested.

What do we implement and demonstrate...

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