5. Service Orchestration and Connectivity

It’s likely our microservices-based application is composed of more than one service, and multiple instances of each service. So how do we deploy and manage multiple services, multiple instances of each service, and the connectivity between the services? With a microservices architecture, it’s even more important that we automate everything. Orchestration tools are used to deploy and manage multiple sets of containers in production, and service discovery tools are used to help route traffic to the appropriate services.

The services used to compose our application could be deployed into a growing number of cloud-hosted compute offerings available today. Using some combination of Infrastructure as a Service ...

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