You're reading from Practical Cloud-Native Java Development with MicroProfile Develop and deploy scalable, resilient, and reactive cloud-native applications using MicroProfile 4.1

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078801

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Microprofile

Concepts

Cloud Native

Authors (5):

Alasdair Nottingham

John Alcorn

David Chan

Emily Jiang

Andrew McCright

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud-Native Applications

2. Chapter 1: Cloud-Native Applications FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How Does MicroProfile Fit into Cloud-Native Application Development?

4. Chapter 3: Introducing the IBM Stock Trader Cloud-Native Application

5. Section 2: MicroProfile 4.1 Deep Dive

6. Chapter 4: Developing Cloud-Native Applications

7. Chapter 5: Enhancing Cloud-Native Applications

8. Chapter 6: Observing and Monitoring Cloud-Native Applications

9. Chapter 7: MicroProfile Ecosystem with Open Liberty, Docker, and Kubernetes

10. Section 3: End-to-End Project Using MicroProfile

11. Chapter 8: Building and Testing Your Cloud-Native Application

12. Chapter 9: Deployment and Day 2 Operations

13. Section 4: MicroProfile Standalone Specifications and the Future

14. Chapter 10: Reactive Cloud-Native Applications

15. Chapter 11: MicroProfile GraphQL

16. Chapter 12: MicroProfile LRA and the Future of MicroProfile

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the Stock Trader container images

As discussed in previous sections, we use Open Liberty as the application server hosting most of the Stock Trader microservices. And we use Docker to produce the container images that ultimately get run in a Kubernetes cluster such as the OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

The following subsections will describe how we configure the server, and how we package it up into a container image.

Open Liberty

There are a variety of MicroProfile compliant Java application servers on the market. As a reminder from Chapter 3, Introducing the IBM Stock Trader Cloud-Native Application, most of the Stock Trader microservices (Trader, Broker, Broker-Query, Portfolio, Account, Trade History, Messaging, Notification-Slack, Collector, and Looper) are based on the open source Open Liberty application server. For variety, there are three other microservices based on different servers: