"OpenWhisk Foundations and Implementation"
OpenWhisk Foundations and Implementation is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to mastering Apache OpenWhisk, a powerful open-source serverless platform. The book begins by charting the evolution of cloud-native and serverless architectures, offering critical analysis of OpenWhisk's positioning in the broader serverless landscape. Readers are introduced to essential abstractions such as actions, triggers, rules, and packages, and are equipped with best practices for building event-driven, secure, and highly scalable applications using the OpenWhisk paradigm.
Delving into the architectural core, the book meticulously examines the inner workings of OpenWhisk—from API gateways and invoker pipelines to robust persistence, queuing, and multi-tenancy mechanisms. Developers and architects alike will benefit from in-depth chapters on integrating external event sources, orchestrating complex workflows, managing packages, and deploying actions in a variety of runtime environments, including advanced scenarios with custom Docker containers. Emphasis is placed on operational excellence through guidance on Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD automation, observability, disaster recovery, and rigorous compliance standards.
What sets this volume apart is its holistic perspective: it not only addresses development and operations, but also provides strategies for secure, cost-effective scaling, performance optimization, and the extensibility of OpenWhisk in hybrid and edge environments. Through advanced topics such as serverless AI/ML, federated cloud architectures, and industry case studies, the book illuminates the future trajectory of OpenWhisk. Whether you are seeking to modernize your application infrastructure or unlock new capabilities in distributed systems, this book serves as an indispensable resource for professionals seeking to harness the full potential of serverless computing with OpenWhisk.
