August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 48m
English
Services rarely run in isolation. A microservice usually connects to a data store of some kind, and could have other runtime dependencies. In order to work on a microservice, it's necessary to run it locally on a developer's machine. Requiring engineers to manually install and manage all the runtime dependencies of a service in order to work on a microservice would be impractical and time consuming. Instead, we need a way to automatically manage runtime service dependencies.
Containers have made services more portable by packaging the runtime environment and configuration with the application code as a shippable artifact. In order to maximize the benefits of using containers for local ...
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