▶Book Description
Serverless applications are becoming very popular among developers and are generating a buzz in the tech market. Many organizations struggle with the effective implementation of DevOps with serverless applications. DevOps for Serverless Applications takes you through different DevOps-related scenarios to give you a solid foundation in serverless deployment.
You will start by understanding the concepts of serverless architecture and development, and why they are important. Then, you will get to grips with the DevOps ideology and gain an understanding of how it fits into the Serverless Framework. You'll cover deployment framework building and deployment with CI and CD pipelines for serverless applications. You will also explore log management and issue reporting in the serverless environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn important security tips and best practices for secure pipeline management.
By the end of this book, you will be in a position to effectively build a complete CI and CD delivery pipeline with log management for serverless applications.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Explore serverless fundamentals and effectively combine them with DevOps
⦁ Set up CI and CD with AWS Lambda and other popular Serverless service providers with the help of the Serverless Framework
⦁ Perform monitoring and logging with serverless applications
⦁ Set up a dynamic dashboard for different service providers
⦁ Discover best practices for applying DevOps to serverless architecture
⦁ Understand use cases for different serverless architectures
▶Key Features
⦁ Understand various services for designing serverless architecture
⦁ Build CD pipelines using various cloud providers for your serverless applications
⦁ Implement DevOps best practices when building serverless applications
▶Who This Book Is For
DevOps for Serverless Applications is for DevOps engineers, architects, or anyone interested in understanding the DevOps ideology in the serverless world. You will learn how to use DevOps with serverless and apply continuous integration, continuous delivery, testing, logging, and monitoring with serverless development.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Introducing Serverless, describes what serverless is with simple words, covering its benefits and drawbacks. It talks about different service providers of serverless and provides an introduction to the serverless services they provide.
⦁ Chapter 2, Understanding Serverless Frameworks, talks about different deployment frameworks for serverless and also dives into the Serverless Framework, which is used in most of the chapters in the book.
⦁ Chapter 3, Applying DevOps to AWS Lambda Applications, deep dives into AWS Lambda with respect to DevOps. It sails through multiple hands-on tutorials on the continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline with the Serverless Framework and Jenkins, as well as monitoring and logging. It also covers how to set up canary and blue/green deployments for AWS Lambda.
⦁ Chapter 4, DevOps with Azure Functions, talks about Azure functions. It starts with how to create and deploy Azure functions, then teaches how to set up a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline through Jenkins. It also covers monitoring and logging and talks about best practices for DevOps with Azure functions.
⦁ Chapter 5, Integrating DevOps with IBM OpenWhisk, introduces Openwhisk and covers setting up a deployment pipeline with Serverless Framework and Jenkins. Monitoring and dynamic dashboard of OpenWhisk on IBM cloud are also covered.
⦁ Chapter 6, DevOps with Google Functions, starts with an introduction to Google functions. It walks through multiple tutorials, from creating a function to setting up an automated deployment pipeline. It also talks about how to monitor and log with the Google stack driver.
⦁ Chapter 7, Adding DevOps Flavour to Kubeless, explains that Kubeless is an open source serverless architecture that sits on Kubernetes. This chapter introduces Kubeless and explains how to set up continuous integration and continuous deployment for Kubeless.
⦁ Chapter 8, Best Practices and the Future of DevOps with Serverless, discusses how we all deal with performance issues with our applications in the journey of development, and this leads us to best practices. So, this chapter outlines the best practices for serverless and DevOps so that we can develop and deploy with ease.
⦁ Chapter 9, Use Cases and Essentials, covers some popular use cases for serverless and also essential tit-bits that can improve development and deployment.
⦁ Chapter 10, DevOps trends with Serverless, covers how serverless will the shape DevOps and how DevOps has to change its track with the adoption of serverless.
