Chapter 13
Case Study: Containerizing a Helpdesk Application
In Chapter 12, “Case Study: Migration to Microservices,” we created three microservices based on our needs and the criteria we learned throughout this book. The next question becomes, how do we scale this model? In the real world, a large-scale application may have hundreds to thousands of microservices. In this chapter, we use our knowledge of Docker containers to deploy and scale the microservices on demand.
The monolithic part of our application will continue to run as is, but we will containerize the microservices part of the application, which includes ticketing, product catalog, and search, and make appropriate changes to the monolithic application.
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