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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices
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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

by Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
9h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Service instance per container

When we use the service instance per container pattern, each microservice instance runs in a container unique to the instance. Containers are a virtualization engine operating at the system level. A good example of a container is Docker, which we are already using in our project for local development.

To use this pattern, we need a container image of a microservice. After the container is created, we release one or more containers. Multiple containers are usually run on each physical or virtual host. You are advised to use a cluster manager such as Kubernetes to manage the containers.

The service instance per container pattern has benefits and drawbacks. The benefits of the containers are similar to those of ...

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