Service registries and repositories are very vital for any software development organization. With microservices emerging as the next-generation application building block, the relevance of services and their one-stop registry is on the climb. A service registry has all the right references for each of the services in the environment. That is, each service, once developed, has to be registered with the service registry in order to be found, bound, and to contribute immensely. Thus, any service wanting to connect with other services has to first connect to the service registry to collect all the discovery, access, and leverage details of the services. A service registry might invoke a service instance's health check API to verify that it is able to handle requests. The well-known service registry technologies are:
- Apache Zookeeper
- Consul
- Etcd
A service...