10 Building a delivery pipeline for microservices

This chapter covers

  • Designing a continuous delivery pipeline for a microservice
  • Using Jenkins and Kubernetes to automate deployment tasks
  • Managing staging and production environments
  • Using feature flags and dark launches to distinguish between deployment and release

Rapidly and reliably releasing new microservices and new features to production is crucial to successfully maintaining a microservice application. Unlike a monolithic application, where you can optimize deployment for a single use case, microservice deployment practices need to scale to multiple services, written in different languages, and each with their own dependencies. Investing in consistent and robust deployment tooling ...

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