Chapter 6. Deployment
Deploying a monolithic application is a fairly straightforward process. Microservices, with their interdependence, are a different kettle of fish altogether. If you don’t approach deployment right, it’s one of those areas where the complexity can make your life a misery. In this chapter, we’re going to look at some techniques and technology that can help us when deploying microservices into fine-grained architectures.
We’re going to start off, though, by taking a look at continuous integration and continuous delivery. These related but different concepts will help shape the other decisions we’ll make when thinking about what to build, how to build it, and how to deploy it.
A Brief Introduction to Continuous Integration
Continuous integration (CI) has been around for a number of years at this point. It’s worth spending a bit of time going over the basics, however, as especially when we think about the mapping between microservices, builds, and version control repositories, there are some different options to consider.
With CI, the core goal is to keep everyone in sync with each other, which we achieve by making sure that newly checked-in code properly integrates with existing code. To do this, a CI server detects that the code has been committed, checks it out, and carries out some verification like making sure the code compiles and that tests pass.
As part of this process, we often create artifact(s) that are used for further validation, such as deploying ...
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