Relationship with microservices

The infrastructure of microservices, if not properly provisioned, can easily result in oversized infrastructures and, essentially, a higher cost of ownership. As discussed in the previous sections, a cloud-like environment with a cluster management tool is essential to realize cost benefits when dealing with large-scale microservices.

The Spring Boot microservices turbocharged with the Spring Cloud project is the ideal candidate workload to leverage cluster management tools. As Spring Cloud-based microservices are location unaware, these services can be deployed anywhere in the cluster. Whenever services come up, they automatically register to the service registry and advertise their availability. On the other hand, consumers always look for the registry to discover the available service instances. This way, the application supports a full fluid structure without preassuming a deployment topology. With Docker, we were able to abstract the runtime so that the...