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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835268
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chanwit Kaewkasi Chanwit Kaewkasi
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Serverless Framework

The Serverless Framework is an application development framework and tool for the serverless computing paradigm. The framework only shares the same name with serverless. Please do not be confused.

The authors of the Serverless Framework consider that a serverless application is the next evolution of application development in the cloud native ecosystem. And this kind of application needs a certain level of automation. This idea was the stem of the framework.

The design idea views managed services and functions as coupled entities. To make an application around them, a tool should provide build, test, and deploy commands to make the whole development life cycle fully automated.

There also should be a consistent way of building, testing, and deploying a serverless application to multiple cloud providers, while minimizing code changes. The framework should...

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