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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development Build microservices for mobile and web applications using Swift 5 and Vapor 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530889
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ralph Kuepper Ralph Kuepper
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices 2. Understanding Server-Side Swift FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with the Vapor Framework 4. Planning an Online Store Application 5. Creating Your First Microservice 6. Application Structure and Database Design 7. Writing the User Service 8. Testing Microservices 9. Product Management Service 10. Understanding Microservices Communication 11. Order Management Service 12. Best Practices 13. Hosting Microservices 14. Docker and the Cloud 15. Deploying Microservices in the Cloud 16. Scaling and Monitoring Microservices 17. Assessment Answers 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running Swift via Docker

If we were to set up each of our servers manually, just like we did previously, we would never finish deploying. Fortunately, a handy tool called Docker not only automates this step, but it also allows for intelligent memory management for servers. Docker is a tool that containerizes applications and gives them isolated environments while also saving their state as we need it to run. This means that if we were to put the preceding steps in a Dockerfile, we could spin this file up whenever we needed it.

Luckily for us, Apple has already done that. We can access official Docker images for Swift that give us all we need. Docker is best-explained by looking at a Dockerfile, so let's take a look at the standard Vapor Dockerfile. A Dockerfile is a text file that contains all the instructions for Docker to create images that we can then run as containers...

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