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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure Automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209671
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nills Franssens Nills Franssens
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Gunther Lenz Gunther Lenz
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Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface Section 1: The Basics
1. Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 2. Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) Section 2: Deploying on AKS
3. Application deployment on AKS 4. Building scalable applications 5. Handling common failures in AKS 6. Securing your application with HTTPS and Azure AD 7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application Section 3: Leveraging advanced Azure PaaS services
8. Connecting an app to an Azure database 9. Connecting to Azure Event Hubs 10. Securing your AKS cluster 11. Serverless functions Index

Multiple functions platforms

Functions platforms, such as Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions, have gained tremendously in popularity. The ability to run code without thinking about servers and having virtually limitless scale is very popular. The downside of using a cloud provider's functions implementation is that you are locked into their infrastructure and their programming model. Also, you can only run your functions in the public cloud and not in your own datacenter.

A number of open-source functions frameworks have been launched to solve these downsides. There are a number of popular frameworks:

  • Serverless (https://serverless.com/): A Node.js-based serverless application framework that can deploy and manage functions on multiple cloud providers, including Azure. Kubernetes support is provided via Kubeless.
  • OpenFaaS (https://www.openfaas.com/): OpenFaaS is a serverless framework that is Kubernetes-native. It can run on either managed Kubernetes...
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