Building a microservice
We spent quite a bit of time talking about monoliths. First, we discussed which is the best approach for you, then we spent some time showing how to deploy a monolith into Istio to get from it many of the benefits that microservices do. Now, let’s dive into building and deploying a microservice. Our microservice will be pretty simple. The goal is to show how a microservice is built and integrated into an application, rather than how to build a full-fledged application based on microservices. Our book is focused on enterprise, so we’re going to focus on a service that:
- Requires authentication from a specific user
- Requires authorization for a specific user based on a group membership or attribute
- Does something very important
- Generates some log data about what happened
This is common in enterprise applications and the services they’re built on. Most enterprises need to be able to associate actions, or...
