Summary
In this chapter, we learned about the deployment process. We saw some go live criteria, a deployment pipeline, and finally got acquainted with Docker. We saw some Docker commands and got acquainted with the world of dockerization. Then we saw some of the challenges involved with logging and monitoring when dealing with huge distributed microservices. We explored various solutions for logging and implemented a custom centralized logging solution using the famous ELK stack. In the latter half of the chapter, we saw monitoring tools, such as keymetrics and Prometheus.
The next chapter will explore the final part of our product: security and scalability. We will see how to protect our Node.js applications against brute force attacks and what exactly our security plan should be. Then, we will look at scalability and scale our microservice through AWS—auto scalability.
