Deploying microservices

Let's start to think practically about microservice deployment. We are going to look at the latest container technologies and orchestrator tools that are dominating the microservice market. First, we will list the availability of tools and options and then we will look at an example to show you how things can be deployed in the microservice model.

Microservices can be deployed on the following platforms:

• Container platforms: These include technologies such as Docker, rkt, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS.
• Code as a function: We can deploy bare functions written in supported programming languages on AWS Lambda-like platforms. These platforms will run that configured code and store the result on an S3-like bucket or a supported database on a cloud vendor platform. Alternatively, the code might trigger a further configured action. It can be called through AWS API Gateways, a similar service available on Microsoft Azure, or over Google's Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Virtual platforms: These include virtual machines such as VMware, vSphere VM, Xen VM, and KVM-based VMs.

There are different tools available for deployment in each category in these platforms. We will take a look at these in the following sections.