Implementing Kubernetes Features as an Alternative

The current microservice landscape contains a number of supportive services that implement important design patterns required in a large-scale microservice landscape; for example an edge, config, and authorization server, and a service for distributed tracing. For details, see Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices, and refer to the Design patterns for microservices section. In the previous chapter, we replaced the implementation of the design pattern for service discovery, based on Netflix Eureka, with the built-in discovery service in Kubernetes. In this chapter, we will further simplify the microservice landscape by reducing the number of supportive services required to be deployed. Instead, the corresponding design patterns will be handled by built-in capabilities in Kubernetes. The Spring Cloud Config Server will...