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Building Microservices with Micronaut®

By : Nirmal Singh, Zack Dawood
Book Image

Building Microservices with Micronaut®

By: Nirmal Singh, Zack Dawood

Overview of this book

The open source Micronaut® framework is a JVM-based toolkit designed to create microservices quickly and easily. This book will help full-stack and Java developers build modular, high-performing, and reactive microservice-based apps using the Micronaut framework. You'll start by building microservices and learning about the core components, such as ahead-of-time compilation, reflection-less dependency injection, and reactive baked-in HTTP clients and servers. Next, you will work on a real-time microservice application and learn how to integrate Micronaut projects with different kinds of relational and non-relational databases. You'll also learn how to employ different security mechanisms to safeguard your microservices and integrate microservices using event-driven architecture in the Apache Kafka ecosystem. As you advance, you'll get to grips with automated testing and popular testing tools. The book will help you understand how you can easily handle microservice concerns in Micronaut projects, such as service discovery, API documentation, distributed configuration management, fallbacks, and circuit breakers. Finally, you'll explore the deployment and maintenance aspects of microservices and get up to speed with the Internet of Things (IoT) using the Framework. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build, test, deploy, and maintain your own microservice apps using the framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Core Concepts and Basics
3
Section 2: Microservices Development
8
Section 3: Microservices Testing
10
Section 4: Microservices Deployment
13
Section 5: Microservices Maintenance
15
Section 6: IoT with Micronaut and Closure

Documenting the service APIs

API documentation is especially important in a microservices architecture for intuitive access to the API information, since an application can have multiple microservices and each microservice runs several API endpoints. OpenAPI is the de facto standard for any web services documentation. The Swagger framework, an implementation of OpenAPI, is integrated easily with a Micronaut microservice. We can easily document all our service endpoints using Swagger. In the following sections, we will explore how we can integrate Swagger into the pet-owner microservice.

Using Swagger to document the pet-owner service endpoints

To start using Swagger in the pet-owner microservice, we first need to import the following dependency into the pom.xml project:

<!-- Swagger -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
  <artifactId>swagger-annotations</artifactId>
  <version>${swagger...