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Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions

You're reading from   Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions Design, build, and operate serverless solutions on cloud and open source platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230085
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aditya Krishnakumar Aditya Krishnakumar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Serverless Essentials
2. Chapter 1: Serverless Computing and Function as a Service FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Backend as a Service and Powerful Serverless Platforms 4. Part 2 – Platforms and Solutions in Action
5. Chapter 3: Serverless Solutions in AWS 6. Chapter 4: Serverless Solutions in Azure 7. Chapter 5: Serverless Solutions in GCP 8. Chapter 6: Serverless Cloudflare 9. Chapter 7: Kubernetes, Knative and OpenFaaS 10. Chapter 8: Self-Hosted FaaS with Apache OpenWhisk 11. Part 3 – Design, Build, and Operate Serverless
12. Chapter 9: Implementing DevOps Practices for Serverless 13. Chapter 10: Serverless Security, Observability, and Best Practices 14. Chapter 11: Architectural and Design Patterns for Serverless 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating and managing actions and entities

There are multiple ways to deploy OpenWhisk on your infrastructure. Kubernetes has become a preferred choice for deployment. OpenWhisk provides Helm charts to help you deploy OpenWhisk infrastructure on Kubernetes. There are certain requirements to be satisfied for deploying on Kubernetes, though:

  • The default installation needs at least one worker node with a minimum of two vCPUs and 4 GB of memory
  • The Kubernetes cluster should be version 1.19 or above
  • The privilege to create ingress so that the OpenWhisk gateway can be exposed
  • The Kubernetes hairpin-mode shouldn’t be none as OpenWhisk endpoints should be able to loop back to themselves

For more details, refer to the official documentation at https://github.com/apache/OpenWhisk-deploy-kube

The other deployment options are as follows:

  • QuickStart: OpenWhisk provides a standalone version of itself. This standalone version is a Java process that exposes...
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