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Microservices Deployment Cookbook

By : Vikram Murugesan
Book Image

Microservices Deployment Cookbook

By: Vikram Murugesan

Overview of this book

This book will help any team or organization understand, deploy, and manage microservices at scale. It is driven by a sample application, helping you gradually build a complete microservice-based ecosystem. Rather than just focusing on writing a microservice, this book addresses various other microservice-related solutions: deployments, clustering, load balancing, logging, streaming, and monitoring. The initial chapters offer insights into how web and enterprise apps can be migrated to scalable microservices. Moving on, you’ll see how to Dockerize your application so that it is ready to be shipped and deployed. We will look at how to deploy microservices on Mesos and Marathon and will also deploy microservices on Kubernetes. Next, you will implement service discovery and load balancing for your microservices. We’ll also show you how to build asynchronous streaming systems using Kafka Streams and Apache Spark. Finally, we wind up by aggregating your logs in Kafka, creating your own metrics, and monitoring the metrics for the microservice.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microservices Deployment Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up Consul using Docker


So far in this chapter, we've talked about the need for service discovery and load balancing. We also learned how to use Zookeeper to perform service discovery and load balancing. If you've tried the previous recipes in this chapter, you will have realized it requires some effort to manage your services in Zookeeper. It also requires some code to be written. In the next few recipes, we will learn to do the same thing with Consul. Consul is a service-discovery framework from HashiCorp that is multi-datacenter aware. One very useful feature Consul comes with is distributed key-value storage. This is really useful when you want to store configuration information. In this recipe, we will learn how to orchestrate Consul using Docker.

Getting ready

HashiCorp has released official images of consul and their other products. So this recipe is going to be pretty straightforward.

  1. The easiest way to start Consul is by executing a docker run command with the image name.

  2. The...