Security checklist
Microservices development is a platform of standard tools combined with lots of supporting tools and everything is on the move. In this section, we will look at an overall checklist, which we can use to validate our development, or which can give us a general idea of our microservice development.
Service necessities
The first and primary level of development is individual microservice development, satisfying some business capability. The following a checklist can be used while developing microservices:
- Services should be developed and deployed independently
- Services should not have shared data; they should have their own private data
- Services should be small enough that they are focused and can add big value
- Data should be stored in databases and service instances should not be stored
- Work should be offloaded to asynchronous workers whenever possible
- Load balancers should be introduced to distribute work
- Security should be layered and we don't need to reinvent the wheel; for example...
