We want to provide all the tools our customers need for data and storage, but sometimes the best solution is one the customer creates on their own. In this tutorial, available in full on the Zenko forums, our Head of Research Vianney Rancurel demonstrates how to set up a CloudServer instance to perform additional functions from a Python script.
The environment for this instance includes a modified version of CloudServer deployed in Kubernetes (Minikube will also work) with Helm, AWS CLI, Kubeless and Kafka. Kubeless is a serverless framework designed to be deployed on a Kubernetes cluster, which allows users to call functions in other languages through Kafka triggers (full documentation). We’re taking advantage of this feature to call a Python script that produces two thumbnails of any image that is uploaded to CloudServer.
The modified version of CloudServer will generate Kafka events in a specific topic for each S3 operation. When a user uploads a photo, CloudServer pushes a message to the Kafka topic and the Kafka trigger runs the Python script to create two thumbnail images based on the image uploaded.
This setup allows users to create scripts in popular languages like Python, Ruby and Node.js to configure the best solutions to automate their workflows. Check out the video below to see Kubeless and Kafka triggers in action.
For those of you who like to also see text description, follow Vianney’s full tutorial on Zenko forum.
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