September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
668 pages
15h 59m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
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Verifying that microservices work without Kubernetes
In this chapter and the previous one, we have seen how features in the Kubernetes platform, such as config maps, secrets, services, and ingress resources, can simplify the effort of developing a landscape of cooperating microservices. But it is important to ensure that the source code of the microservices doesn't get dependent on the platform from a functional perspective. Avoiding such a lock-in makes it possible to change to another platform in the future, if required, with minimal effort. Changing the platform should not require changes in the source code but only in the configuration of the microservices.
Testing the microservices using Docker Compose and the test-em-all.bash test ...