Banking and financial services scenarios

That brings us to the banking and financial services industries! Our first two architectures explore an infrastructure deployment scenario (banking system cloud transformation) and a blockchain scenario that provides on-demand compute (decentralized trust between banks).

Banking system cloud transformation

For our first architecture in this industry, Banking system cloud transformation on Azure, we're looking at a deployment that focuses on aspects of the solution's complete deployment ecosystem, which we first discussed in Chapter 2, Solution Architecture. The bank uses Docker to deliver the microservices containers to the Kubernetes cluster, which should be familiar as we saw a similar example in Chapter 3, Infrastructure Design.

This solution also leverages DevOps lessons learned in Chapter 4, Infrastructure Deployment, including important life cycle considerations, such as load testing and monitoring. It leverages the...