Building Event-Driven Microservices, 2nd Edition

Chapter 19. Supportive Tooling

Supportive tooling enables you to efficiently manage your event-driven microservices and your event streams. This chapter covers the tools that you’re most likely to use, and includes tools you may need to build yourself or that you can install from free open sources. Additionally, some of these tools may be included as part of a SaaS offering, if you choose to go the route of paying for fully managed (or hosted) services. This chapter does not recommend purchasing one product or service over another, but does include links to free open source software as real-world examples of the described tooling (where applicable).

While many of the tools covered in this chapter provide command-line interfaces for administrator usage, you’ll also need to consider how to make self-service tools that automate common steps. These tools provide the DevOps capabilities that are essential for providing easy testing, deployments, rollbacks, scaling, and debugging. The tools covered in this chapter are by no means the only ones available, but they are tools that I and colleagues both past and present have found useful in our experience. Your organization will need to decide what to adopt for its own use cases.

In this chapter, I have listed specific implementations that are available for helping you in your event-driven microservice journey. The reality is that the tooling you use is going to be heavily influenced by your existing organization’s practices, cloud service ...