Technical requirements
The following are the technical requirements for this chapter:
- You need to have Python 3.7 or later installed on your computer.
- Python Flask library with RESTful extensions installed on top of a Python 3.7 or later release.
- Python Django with Django Rest Framework library on top of a Python 3.7 or later release.
- You need to have a Docker registry account and installed Docker Engine and Docker Compose on your machine.
- To deploy a microservice in GCP Cloud Run, you will need a GCP account (a free trial will work fine).
Sample code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-for-Geeks/tree/master/Chapter11.
We will start our discussion with the introduction of microservices.
