Summary

In this chapter, we have addressed the installation part of data referential service management, deploying (with Docker containers ) the first data referential service we created in the previous chapter for book management, and adding authentication features and authorization rules to it.

We have shown the potential pitfalls in the deployment, but also some tricks about industrializing the API presence in the information system. The part about IAM was a big one, and this shows how important (and complex) this feature of a good referential service can be. Luckily, we can externalize these features, which means that all the hard work of MFA, securing passwords, providing GUI to modify personal profiles, adding identity federation and delegation, and so on, is now done by a dedicated server. But simply integrating this IAM is not easy and should be carried out with great care.

Now that you are equipped with the knowledge to deploy a data referential service, we will show...