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Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python

By : Jaime Buelta
Book Image

Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python

By: Jaime Buelta

Overview of this book

Microservices architecture helps create complex systems with multiple, interconnected services that can be maintained by independent teams working in parallel. This book guides you on how to develop these complex systems with the help of containers. You’ll start by learning to design an efficient strategy for migrating a legacy monolithic system to microservices. You’ll build a RESTful microservice with Python and learn how to encapsulate the code for the services into a container using Docker. While developing the services, you’ll understand how to use tools such as GitHub and Travis CI to ensure continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI). As the systems become complex and grow in size, you’ll be introduced to Kubernetes and explore how to orchestrate a system of containers while managing multiple services. Next, you’ll configure Kubernetes clusters for production-ready environments and secure them for reliable deployments. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn how to detect and debug critical problems with the help of logs and metrics. Finally, you’ll discover a variety of strategies for working with multiple teams dealing with different microservices for effective collaboration. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build production-grade microservices as well as orchestrate a complex system of services using containers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Microservices
3
Section 2: Designing and Operating a Single Service – Creating a Docker Container
7
Section 3:Working with Multiple Services – Operating the System through Kubernetes
13
Section 4: Production-Ready System – Making It Work in Real-Life Environments

Setting up the Docker registry

We need to be able to reach the Docker registry where the images to be deployed are stored. The easiest way of ensuring that the Docker registry is reachable is to use the Docker registry in the same service.

You can still use the Docker Hub registry, but using a registry in the same cloud provider is typically easier as it's better integrated. It will also help in terms of authentication.

We need to configure an Elastic Container Registry (ECR), using the following steps:

  1. Log into the AWS console and search for Kubernetes or ECR:
  1. Create a new registry called frontend. It will create a full URL, which you will need to copy:
  1. We need to make our local docker log in the registry. Note that aws ecr get-login will return a docker command that will log you in, so copy it and paste:
$ aws ecr get-login --no-include-email
<command>
$ docker...