July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes
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Getting to know Go kit
You can write your microservices from scratch (in Go or any other language) and they will interact with each other just fine through their APIs. However, in a real-world system, there will be a large number of shared and/or cross-cutting concerns that you want to be consistent:
- Configuration
- Secret management
- Central logging
- Metrics
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Security
- Distributed tracing
- Service discovery
In practice, microservices in most large production systems will need to comply with certain policies for those concerns.
Enter Go kit (https://gokit.io/). Go kit takes a very modular approach to the microservices space. It provides a high degree of separation of concerns, a recommended approach for structuring ...