A sample microservices application based on Docker containers

You have so far learnt about Service Oriented aArchitecture (SOA) and microservices as key enterprise application architectures, and have also learnt the ideas behind the containerization, especially, how well it fits with the microservices architecture. Along the way, you've also gotten equipped with the Azure cloud offerings around the modern services oriented architecture, which fits according to our needs. We will now get a hands-on experience with a very basic application having two simple microservices based on Docker containers and we will then deploy them to Azure Container Service.

The sample application

Let's begin with dissecting our application in a step-by-step process, with a direct...