The primary objective of a Microservices hosting platform is to simplify the tasks around developing, deploying, and maintaining Microservices while optimizing the infrastructure resource consumption. Together, these tasks can be called Microservice lifecycle management tasks.
The journey starts with the hosting platform supporting development of the Microservices by providing means for integrating with platform features and application framework. This is critical to enable the hosting platform to manage the lifecycle of a service hosted on it. Integration is usually achieved by the hosting platform exposing APIs (application programming interfaces) which can be consumed by the development team. These APIs are ...
