Practical Kubeless: Deploying and Operating Serverless Functions on Kubernetes

Practical Kubeless: Deploying and Operating Serverless Functions on Kubernetes is a hands-on guide that connects cloud-native developers with the realities of running serverless on Kubernetes. Beginning with clear motivations for the serverless paradigm, the book contrasts Kubernetes-native Function-as-a-Service frameworks with managed public cloud offerings and lays out the event-driven principles that power resilient, scalable microservices. It walks readers through pragmatic architectural patterns, deployment pipelines, and the operational trade-offs teams face when moving from experimentation to production.

The book then dives into Kubeless itself, offering an authoritative view of its control plane, function lifecycle management, and event triggers, along with advanced topics like networking, resource allocation, and strategies for high availability. Readers learn how to securely deploy, monitor, and operate production-grade workloads, integrate with Kubernetes observability stacks, and implement scalable autoscaling, robust error handling, and multi-tenancy—each concept reinforced with real-world case studies and patterns for hybrid and edge deployments.

More than a technical manual, Practical Kubeless empowers teams to extend the platform and orchestrate complex event-driven workflows, covering programming and debugging at scale, benchmarking, and service-mesh integration. It also guides decision-making around interoperability and migration while surveying emerging trends, sustainability practices, and community-driven innovation—making it an indispensable reference for architects, developers, DevOps engineers, and technology leaders embracing the next generation of cloud-native application development.