Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition: With Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, and Terraform Paperback - 2024

The best way to learn microservices development is to build something! Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform, Second Edition guides you from zero through to a complete microservices project, including fast prototyping, development, and deployment.

In Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition you'll get hands-on experience with microservices development skills like:

• Creating, configuring, and running a microservice with Node.js
• Building and publishing a microservice using Docker
• Applying automated testing
• Running a microservices application in development with Docker Compose
• Deploying microservices to a production Kubernetes cluster
• Implementing infrastructure as code and setting up a continuous delivery pipeline
• Monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Taking a microservices application from proof of concept to production requires many steps and a host of tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. But where do you start? With clear, practical introductions to each concept and tool, this book guides you hands-on through designing and building your first microservices application.

About the book

Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition is your microservices mentor. It teaches you to use industry-standard tools to create a working video streaming application from the ground up. You'll learn the pillars of cloud-native development, including Terraform for configuration, Docker for packaging, and a basic Kubernetes deployment. Plus, this second edition includes coverage of GitHub Actions, continuous delivery, and Infrastructure as Code.

What's inside

• Deploying microservices to Kubernetes
• Automated testing and continuous delivery
• Monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting

Examples are in JavaScript and Node. No experience with microservices required.

About the author

Ashley Davis is a software craftsman, entrepreneur, and author with over 25 years of experience in software development--from coding, to managing teams, to founding companies.

Table of Contents

1 Why microservices?
2 Creating your first microservice
3 Publishing your first microservice
4 Data management for microservices
5 Communication between microservices
6 The road to production
7 Infrastructure as code
8 Continuous deployment
9 Automated testing for microservices
10 Shipping FlixTube
11 Healthy microservices
12 Pathways to scalability