This chapter has walked us through a sample service mesh composed of a web application, two microservice images using MP features in a new Quarkus implementation, an external web service, and two Docker-based services. This showed the interplay between the various MP features and external services you will find in cloud environments, along with integration with web services external to the local mesh environment. This should give you a feeling of the steps involved when composing microservices using the MicroProfile APIs and implementations.
In the next chapter, we will take a look at MicroProfile specifications that are under development to have an idea of what directions are being explored. While these specifications are currently outside of the MicroProfile core feature set, they are candidates for future inclusion, and looking at them will give us an idea of where...