https://alexanderdevelopment.net/tag/serverless/Recent content in serverless on Alexander DevelopmentHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 05 Jul 2018 17:28:47 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/07/05/building-a-custom-dynamics-365-data-interface-with-openfaas/Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:28:47 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/07/05/building-a-custom-dynamics-365-data-interface-with-openfaas/Over the past several months, I’ve been doing a lot of work with OpenFaaS in my spare time, and in today’s post I will show how you can use it to easily build and deploy a custom web service interface for data in a Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement online tenant.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/05/31/installing-and-securing-openfaas-on-an-aks/Thu, 31 May 2018 14:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/05/31/installing-and-securing-openfaas-on-an-aks/A few months back, I wrote a guide for installing and locking down OpenFaaS in a Docker Swarm running on Google Cloud Platform virtual machines. Today I want to share a step-by-step guide that shows how to install OpenFaaS on a new Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using an Nginx ingress controller to lock it down with basic authentication and free Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/05/19/an-azure-ad-oauth2-helper-microservice/Sat, 19 May 2018 16:45:38 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/05/19/an-azure-ad-oauth2-helper-microservice/One of the biggest trends in systems architecture these days is the use of “serverless” functions like Azure Functions, Amazon Lambda and OpenFaas. Because these functions are stateless, if you want to use a purely serverless approach to work with resources secured using Azure Active Directory like Dynamics 365 online, a new token will have to be requested every time a function executes.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/05/18/using-ml-net-in-an-openfaas-function/Fri, 18 May 2018 03:20:22 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/05/18/using-ml-net-in-an-openfaas-function/Last week at its annual Build conference, Microsoft announced ML.NET, an “open source and cross-platform machine learning framework” that runs in .NET Core. I took a look at the getting started samples and realized ML.NET would be a great tool to use in OpenFaas functions. I decided to write a proof-of-concept function based on the ML.https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/02/25/installing-and-securing-openfaas-on-a-google-cloud-virtual-machine/Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:00:00 +0000https://alexanderdevelopment.net/post/2018/02/25/installing-and-securing-openfaas-on-a-google-cloud-virtual-machine/Here is a step-by-step guide that shows how to install OpenFaaS on a new Google Cloud Platform virtual machine instance running Ubuntu Linux and how to secure it with Nginx as a reverse proxy using basic authentication and free SSL/TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt. As you look at this guide, here are a few things to keep in mind: