This is the code repository for Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina, published by Packt.
A beginner's guide for programmers interested in developing cloud native applications using Ballerina Swan Lake
The Ballerina programming language was created by WSO2 for the modern needs of developers where microservices and cloud native development techniques have become ubiquitous. Ballerina simplifies how programmers develop and deploy cloud native distributed apps and microservices.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Understand the concepts and models in cloud native architecture.
- Get to grips with the high-level concepts of building applications with the Ballerina language.
- Use cloud native architectural design patterns to develop cloud native Ballerina applications.
- Discover how to automate, maintain, and observe cloud native Ballerina applications.
- Use a container to deploy and maintain a Ballerina application with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Explore serverless architecture and use Microsoft Azure and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform to build serverless applications.
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter03.
The code will look like the following:
import ballerina/http;
service /hello on new http:Listener(9090) {
resource function get greeting() returns string {
return "Hello, World!";
}
}
Following is what you need for this book: This Ballerina Swan Lake book is for cloud developers, integration developers, and microservices developers who are facing challenges with legacy tooling and are looking for the latest tools and technologies to solve them. Beginner-level programming knowledge is required before getting started with this Ballerina book.
Please visit the following link to check the CiA videos: https://bit.ly/3l1Exb9
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-10).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | JRE, Ballerina CLI, VSCode | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 3 | Docker, Kubernetes, Minikube, Kustomize | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 4 | Kafka, RabbitMQ | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 5 | MySQL database, RabbitMQ broker, Kubernetes | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 6 | AWS and Azure Cloud account | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 7 | KeyTool, WSO2 Identity Server, Java 11 | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 8 | Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash, Jaeger, Elasticsearch | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 9 | Choreo, WSO2 API Microgateway | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 10 | Any SCM tool | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Dhanushka Madushan is a Senior Software Engineer working at WS02. He has more than 4 years of experience in developing software solutions for Cloud based platforms in different business domains. He has worked on the WSO2 integration platform for 2+ years and responsible for building and maintaining ESB and Microintegrator products. Dhanushka has been a part of many projects.