You're reading from Practical Cloud-Native Java Development with MicroProfile Develop and deploy scalable, resilient, and reactive cloud-native applications using MicroProfile 4.1

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078801

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Microprofile

Concepts

Cloud Native

Authors (5):

Alasdair Nottingham

John Alcorn

David Chan

Emily Jiang

Andrew McCright

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud-Native Applications

2. Chapter 1: Cloud-Native Applications FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How Does MicroProfile Fit into Cloud-Native Application Development?

4. Chapter 3: Introducing the IBM Stock Trader Cloud-Native Application

5. Section 2: MicroProfile 4.1 Deep Dive

6. Chapter 4: Developing Cloud-Native Applications

7. Chapter 5: Enhancing Cloud-Native Applications

8. Chapter 6: Observing and Monitoring Cloud-Native Applications

9. Chapter 7: MicroProfile Ecosystem with Open Liberty, Docker, and Kubernetes

10. Section 3: End-to-End Project Using MicroProfile

11. Chapter 8: Building and Testing Your Cloud-Native Application

12. Chapter 9: Deployment and Day 2 Operations

13. Section 4: MicroProfile Standalone Specifications and the Future

14. Chapter 10: Reactive Cloud-Native Applications

15. Chapter 11: MicroProfile GraphQL

16. Chapter 12: MicroProfile LRA and the Future of MicroProfile

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 9: Deployment and Day 2 Operations

So far, we've seen many code snippets and screenshots of our example application, the IBM Stock Trader. Now, let's learn how to deploy it to your own OpenShift Container Platform cluster or any Kubernetes platform of your choice. As important as getting it running is, it is also very important to learn how to maintain it and tune it to meet your needs.

Unlike many Hello World samples that you might see on the internet, that either have no operator at all (just having you manually apply .yaml files to install), or they perhaps have a very simple operator per microservice, the IBM Stock Trader example has a composite operator that not only installs all of the microservices but also configures the connectivity to all prerequisite services, including all the credentials used for authentication.

This composite operator also provides an advanced form User Interface (UI) in the OpenShift console, used both at initial deployment time...