Microservices: Up and Running

Chapter 7. Building a Microservices Infrastructure

In the previous chapter we built a CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure changes. The infrastructure for our microservices system will be defined in code and we’ll be able to use the pipeline to automate the testing and implementation of that code. With our automated pipeline in place, we can start writing the code that will define the infrastructure for our microservices-based application. That’s what we’ll focus on in this chapter.

Setting up the right infrastructure is vital to getting the most out of your microservices system. Microservices give us a nice way of breaking the parts of our application into bite-sized pieces. But we’ll need a lot of supporting infrastructure to make all those bite-sized services work together properly. Before we can tackle the challenges of designing and engineering the services themselves, we’ll need to spend some time establishing a network architecture and a deployment architecture for the services to use.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have built a cloud-based infrastructure designed to host the microservices we’ll be building in the next chapter. We’ll start by introducing the infrastructure and its components.

Infrastructure Components

The infrastructure is the set of components that will allow us to deploy, manage, and support a microservices-based application. An infrastructure can include a lot of parts: hardware, software, networks, and tools. So the scope of components we’ll need ...