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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

By : Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias
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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

By: Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias

Overview of this book

With Google's inclusion of first-class support for Kotlin in their Android ecosystem, Kotlin's future as a mainstream language is assured. Microservices help design scalable, easy-to-maintain web applications; Kotlin allows us to take advantage of modern idioms to simplify our development and create high-quality services. With 100% interoperability with the JVM, Kotlin makes working with existing Java code easier. Well-known Java systems such as Spring, Jackson, and Reactor have included Kotlin modules to exploit its language features. This book guides the reader in designing and implementing services, and producing production-ready, testable, lean code that's shorter and simpler than a traditional Java implementation. Reap the benefits of using the reactive paradigm and take advantage of non-blocking techniques to take your services to the next level in terms of industry standards. You will consume NoSQL databases reactively to allow you to create high-throughput microservices. Create cloud-native microservices that can run on a wide range of cloud providers, and monitor them. You will create Docker containers for your microservices and scale them. Finally, you will deploy your microservices in OpenShift Online.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Publishing a microservice as a service

Now that our swarm is ready, we can use it to create services that we can use for scaling, but first, we will create a shared registry in our swarm. Then, we will build a microservice and publish it into a Docker. Finally, we will learn how to scale our microservice and how to control it.

Creating a registry

When we create a swarm's service, we specify an image that will be used, but when we ask Docker to create the instances of the service, it will use the swarm master node to do it.

If we have built our Docker images in our machine, they are not available on the master node of the swarm, so it will create a registry service that we can use to publish our images and reference when...