Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Managing your infrastructure and toolchain

Your infrastructure and toolchain must be managed carefully too, and even versioned. In a large system, your CI/CD pipeline will typically invoke various scripts that automate important tasks, such as migrating databases, preprocessing data, and provisioning cloud resources. These internal tools can change dramatically. Another important category in container-based systems are the versions of your base images. The infrastructure of code approach, combined with GitOps, advocates versioning and storing those aspects of your system in your source control system (Git) as well. So far, we've covered a lot of dark corners and difficult use cases regarding real-world deployments and how to evolve and upgrade ...