Deployment and maintenance

CI and CD are important parts of today's development process. Therefore, having a proper pipeline for building, and for containerized delivery, is discussed in the following sub-sections.

Microservices build pipeline

Microservices can be built and tested using popular CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins and TeamCity. This is done very similarly to how a build is done in a monolithic application. In a microservices architecture, each microservice is treated like a small application.

For example, once you commit the code in the repository (SCM), CI/CD tools trigger the build process:

1. Cleaning code
2. Code compilation
3. Unit test execution
4. Contract/acceptance test execution
5. Building the application archives...