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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

You're reading from   Kubernetes for Serverless Applications Implement FaaS by effectively deploying, managing, monitoring, and orchestrating serverless applications using Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788620376
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Russ McKendrick Russ McKendrick
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Serverless Landscape 2. An Introduction to Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 3. Installing Kubernetes Locally 4. Introducing Kubeless Functioning 5. Using Funktion for Serverless Applications 6. Installing Kubernetes in the Cloud 7. Apache OpenWhisk and Kubernetes 8. Launching Applications Using Fission 9. Looking at OpenFaaS 10. Serverless Considerations 11. Running Serverless Workloads 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing the prerequisites 

Before we install Fission either locally or in a public cloud we need a few supporting tools. The first tool we have already installed and that is the Kubernetes command-line interface, kubectl. The second tool needed to run Fission, we have not installed yet: Helm (http://helm.sh/).

Installing Helm

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes and is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where Bitnami, Google, Microsoft, and the Helm community all contribute to its development.

To install Helm on macOS High Sierra we can use Homebrew; simply run:

$ brew install kubernetes-helm

If you are running Ubuntu Linux then you can download and install Helm using the installation script:

$ curl...
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