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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835268

Length 250 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Chanwit Kaewkasi

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

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Exercises

This chapter covers a lot of practices and hacks to make the whole stack of the demo project, a mobile payment system, work. Please go through the content of all the sections in this chapter:

Why do we need to hack the Fn to build a custom version of an Fn server?
What is the concept of inter-FaaS platform networking? Why is it important?
What are the two roles of an Ethereum block in the demo project?
What is the data type of the parameters of an OpenWhisk function?
How can we encode JSON in Java with Fn?
How can we encode JSON in Golang?
What is the Parse platform?
What is the role of Parse WebHook?
What is the concept of a Glue function?
How can we write a function to wrap a legacy web-based application?

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Authors (1)

Chanwit Kaewkasi

Chanwit Kaewkasi

Chanwit Kaewkasi is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. He started contributing code to the Docker Swarm project in its early day around 0.1. Later in 2016, he led the Swarm2K project together with contributors around the world to form the largest Docker Swarm cluster. Beside teaching and doing research in the field of software engineering, he provides consulting to several companies to help them adopt Docker, microservices, and FaaS technologies. He currently serves the Docker community as a Docker Captain.

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