Writing a real service

So far, we have spent time making fake or mock container services that helped us build Docker skills, but we have not had a chance to work on something that resembles a real-world service. In general, most of the simpler services that get utilized out there will look something similar to what is shown in this high-level diagram:

An overview

Here we will discuss each service in detail.

Web servers:

The rightmost piece in the image we just looked at is a web server. Web servers act as high-speed HTTP request processing handlers and are generally used in this context as follows:

• Reverse-proxy endpoints for resources within the clusters, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and/or Virtual Private Network...