During a deployment, whether it is for your microservices or something else, you are inevitably going to have to start and stop services and applications as a part of your deployment process. I am assuming here you have a managed, continuous deployment process, or, at the very least, not a manual process (yes, I've seen big clients manually promote across environment by hand picking change sets!).
In this chapter we will learn:
- How to create a deployment monitor microservice
- How to create messages specifically for this microservice
- How to handle events during a deployment
- How to tell if a deployment has taken too much time
Now, let's talk a little about what a typical deployment scenario might look like:
When a deployment starts, one or more services and applications affected in that environment (QA, staging, production...
