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Cloud-Native Applications in Java

By : Andreas Olsson, Ajay Mahajan, Munish Kumar Gupta, Shyam Sundar S
Book Image

Cloud-Native Applications in Java

By: Andreas Olsson, Ajay Mahajan, Munish Kumar Gupta, Shyam Sundar S

Overview of this book

Businesses today are evolving so rapidly that they are resorting to the elasticity of the cloud to provide a platform to build and deploy their highly scalable applications. This means developers now are faced with the challenge of building build applications that are native to the cloud. For this, they need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources they’re coding against. If you’re a Java developer who wants to build secure, resilient, robust, and scalable applications that are targeted for cloud-based deployment, this is the book for you. It will be your one stop guide to building cloud-native applications in Java Spring that are hosted in On-prem or cloud providers - AWS and Azure The book begins by explaining the driving factors for cloud adoption and shows you how cloud deployment is different from regular application deployment on a standard data centre. You will learn about design patterns specific to applications running in the cloud and find out how you can build a microservice in Java Spring using REST APIs You will then take a deep dive into the lifecycle of building, testing, and deploying applications with maximum automation to reduce the deployment cycle time. Gradually, you will move on to configuring the AWS and Azure platforms and working with their APIs to deploy your application. Finally, you’ll take a look at API design concerns and their best practices. You’ll also learn how to migrate an existing monolithic application into distributed cloud native applications. By the end, you will understand how to build and monitor a scalable, resilient, and robust cloud native application that is always available and fault tolerant.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Implementing runtime reference architecture


The problems discussed in the previous section are addressed by the following reference runtime architecture:

All these components were already discussed in Chapter 1Introduction to Cloud-Native. Now, we proceed to choose technologies and show an implementation.

Service registry

Running the service registry Eureka was discussed in Chapter 2, Writing Your First Cloud-Native Application. Please refer to that chapter to refresh your memory on how a product service registers itself with Eureka and how the client uses Ribbon and Eureka to find the product service.

The importance of service registry is slightly diminished if we are using Docker Orchestration, such as Kubernetes. In this case, Kubernetes itself manages the registration of a service, which a proxy looks up and redirects to.

Configuration server

The config server stores configurations in a hierarchical manner. This way, the application only needs to know the address of the config server and...