Service registry
This is a form of key/pair storage typically used in fully decoupled service infrastructures to store runtime (for example, active service endpoints and status) and configuration metadata (for example, environment variables and other application properties).
There are many use cases for such a capability. However, in the context of fully decoupled services, a registry can be used by a service to obtain configuration metadata during startup and to register its runtime metadata (for example, HTTP endpoints) once it is up and running. The registry can also be used by other infrastructure components (for example, API gateways or a service mesh) to dynamically determine the status of a service and dynamically route requests to ...
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