Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Service Registration

Also known as service announcements, this is simply the process where changes to a service status are written to a service registry. These changes are typically when a service is available to handle requests, or is no longer available to handle requests. When a new service instance has been scheduled on a node and is ready to receive requests, we need to enable consumers of the service know that it’s ready and where it is. Multiple instances of a service can be scheduled across the cluster, all listening on different IP addresses and ports. It’s part of a service announcement’s job to simply report to the service registry, “I’m an Order service ready to receive requests and I am listening on 10.0.0.4 at port 9001.” The service ...