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Building Microservices with .NET Core

You're reading from   Building Microservices with .NET Core Develop skills in Reactive Microservices, database scaling, Azure Microservices, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887833
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soumya Mukherjee Soumya Mukherjee
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Manish Kanwar Manish Kanwar
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Preface 1. What Are Microservices? FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Microservices 3. Integration Techniques 4. Testing Strategies 5. Deployment 6. Security 7. Monitoring 8. Scaling 9. Reactive Microservices 10. Creating a Complete Microservice Solution

Containers

Container technology is not new to the Linux world. Containers are based on Linux's LXC technology. In this section, let's see how containers are important in the case of microservices.

What are containers?

A container is a piece of software in a complete filesystem. It contains everything that is needed to run: code, runtime, system tools, and system libraries--anything that can be installed on a server. This guarantees that the software will always run in the same way, regardless of its environment. Containers share their host operating system and kernel with other containers on the same host. The technology around containers is not new. It has been a part of the Linux ecosystem for a long time. Due to the recent microservice...

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