Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Summary

In this chapter, we accomplished many tasks and connected all the dots. In particular, we implemented two microservices design patterns (API gateway and CQRS), added a whole new service implemented in Python (including a split Docker base image), added a gRPC service, added an open source message queue system (NATS) to our cluster and integrated it with pub-sub message passing, and, finally, opened up our cluster to the world and demonstrated end-to-end interaction by adding and fetching links from Delinkcious.

At this point, Delinkcious can be considered Alpha-grade software. It's functional, but not even close to production ready. In the next chapter, we will start making Delinkcious more robust by taking care of the most valuable ...