Chapter 7. Security

When we are developing an application, we should always be thinking about how we can make our microservices more secure. There are some techniques and methods that every developer should know in order to avoid security problems. In this chapter, you will discover the ways to use authentication and authorization to use in your microservices, and how to manage the permissions of each functionality once your users log in. You will also discover the different methods you can use to encrypt your data.

Encryption in microservices

We can define encryption as the process of transforming information in such a way that only authorized parties are able to read it. This process can be done practically at any level of your application. For ...

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