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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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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

Launching Kubernetes in AWS

There are several tools we can use to launch a Kubernetes cluster on AWS; we are going to be covering one called kube-aws. Unfortunately, kube-aws does not support Windows-based machines so the following instructions will only apply to macOS High Sierra and Ubuntu 17.04.

kube-aws is a command-line tool that is used to generate an AWS CloudFormation template, which is then used to launch and manage a CoreOS cluster. Kubernetes is then deployed to the cluster of CoreOS instances.

AWS CloudFormation is Amazon's native scripting tool and allows you to programmatically launch AWS services; it covers pretty much all of the AWS API. CoreOS is an operating system that is focused on one thing, running containers. It has an extremely small footprint and is designed to be clustered and configured on cloud providers out-of-the-box.
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