Part 1. First Steps

Welcome, friend.

Those words adorn the welcome mat near my front door, and they are the first words you will see when you visit the mountebank website (https://www.mbtest.org). I’d very much like them to be the first words you read in this book, as I welcome you to the wonderful world of service virtualization in general and mountebank in particular.

This first part aims to provide context behind that introduction, setting the stage for introducing mountebank as part of your testing and continuous delivery stack. Because one of the main drivers behind service virtualization is the increasingly distributed nature of computing, chapter 1 starts with a brief review of microservices, with a focus on how they change the way we ...

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