Architecting the Industrial Internet

Using microservices and containers to speed DevOps

The virtual machines (VMs) on hypervisors that include operating systems remain popular as deployment vehicles in public clouds and on-premises data centers. However, at the time of writing this book, many organizations were adopting development strategies that promised more agility and built upon previous SOA development skills.

Such skilled development teams now often build microservices, single function entities that can be executed on their own while having generic interfaces (such as HTTP) for integration. Though microservices can be deployed in VMs, they are most often deployed using containers. The container is used to provide scope insulation and establish the necessary dependencies ...