8 Deployment

This chapter covers

  • Building Docker images for gRPC services
  • Understanding the components of Kubernetes
  • Maintaining certificates in Kubernetes to enable TLS communication between the end user and the services
  • The motivation behind deployment strategies

Microservices architecture is built on top of a distributed system in which you can see many services, standalone CronJobs, third-party dependencies, and so on. Since there are many challenges in such an environment, it is important to build cloud-native applications. Container technologies like Docker help generate cloud-native artifacts from those application source codes. In the same way, Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration platform, helps deploy artifacts in an ...

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