Microservice Container Hosting

Once we have completed a fair amount of development, our next major concern is hosting. Hosting comes with its own set of problems because there are many options, and the pros and cons of these options are relative to the application’s architecture and overall needs.

Typical hosting options for a web application would be a simple server and a singular point of entry to that server via an IP address or domain name. Now, we are building a microservices application where we pride ourselves on the fact that we can promote loose coupling and have all the parts of our application act autonomously and without direct dependency on each other. The challenge now becomes how we cater to a potentially heterogeneous application. Each service is autonomous and might have varied hosting and database requirements. We would then need to consider creating specific hosting environments for each technology, which can lead to massive cost implications.

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