Starting with a simple service

If we wanted to host the easiest microservice setup, it would consist of only one service. Some might argue that this would not be a microservice setup anymore since we are only dealing with one service, but let's assume that this is the easiest microservice setup we can start with. What do we need for that? A server, or computable entity. You might be wondering why we should differentiate between a "computable entity" and a "server". The answer is simple: in a world where clouds run servers, we are not always dealing with what you would classify as a "server" since the actual server might be doing a lot of different things and we are only using a small part of it. For simplicity purposes, let's assume that ...

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