Simulating Production Locally
In the previous chapter, we managed to modularize our microservice-based application into different Compose files. Also, we went ahead with creating different environments for those applications. We have an environment with mock services, an environment that captures traffic between services, and an environment with monitoring enabled.
By being able to use mock services, generate different environments, and monitor our applications, we are able to be more productive and efficient in everyday development. In this chapter, we shall focus on simulating production locally using Compose.
A development team can be productive from the start if it has fewer dependencies and a development environment ready for testing.
Our target scenario will be an AWS environment. We shall simulate AWS services locally and also make a representation of a Lambda-based AWS environment through a Docker Compose application.
The target environment will be a simple application...
