DevOps Foundations: Microservices

Introduction

• What microservices mean for DevOps
• What you should know

1. Microservices In Production

• Why microservices?
• The concepts behind microservices
• About the example application

2. Service Readiness

• Standardization
• Unit and integration testing
• End-to-end and contract testing
• Contract test example
• Performance testing
• Continuous integration
• Continuous delivery
• Platform-specific and OS artifacts
• Virtual machine and container artifacts
• Versioning
• Basic service discovery
• Dynamic service registries
• Documentation
• Ownership and Conway's law

3. Service Resilience, Reliability, and Scalability

• Architectural safety measures
• Integration methodologies
• Synchronous integration technologies
• Asynchronous integration technologies
• Logging
• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Incidents
• Service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
• Capacity planning

4. Microservices by Example

• Overview of KinetEco case study
• Greenfield services
• Splitting the monolith
• User-facing authentication and authorization
• Service-to-service authentication antipatterns
• Service-to-service authentication
• Challenges adopting microservices

Conclusion

• Next steps