October 9, 2019
August 22nd, 2023
“Microservice Architecture is described as a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services” – Martin Fowler
“Micro-service architecture provides a range of technical benefits that contribute to the development velocity and product quality in software projects, while also contributing to the overall business agility”– MARK EMEIS, Senior Director of Software Technologies, CA Technologies.
Microservices is the state-of-the-art software development technique that structures an application as an assortment of loosely coupled services. Each service is self-contained and should implement a single business capability. Microservice architecture is intended to overcome the hurdles, failure, and breakdown of the bigger applications and thereby increase the modularity aspect. It is considered apt for enterprise software development.
Microservices provide probabilities to add suppleness to the system so that components can handle spikes and errors graciously. With this, every stakeholder can focus exclusively on one element of an overall application, with their own programming style without bothering about other components.
DevOps | Auto Scaling | Stateful Services |
Scheduled Job Handling | API Gateway | Container Management |
Resource and Storage Handling | Fault Tolerance | Load Balancing |
Distributed Metrics | Application Runtime and Packaging | App Deployment |
Configuration Management | Service Discovery | CI / CD |
Virtualization | Hardware & Storage | OS & Networking |
Just the way Microservices does, containers have also been garnering increased popularity as an indispensable ingredient to modernized architecture. Both – microservices and containers are reliable, scalable and offer a nice concept that isolates the essential component of your web services. Microservices and containers are almost inseparable and act as a catalyst for each other.
To adhere to all the above needs of a Microservices architecture, the one technology that is apt is Kubernetes – the popular container management platform. Popular, effective, scalable, robust, and simplistic – it has its own user community to boast of. Kubernetes, along with the support of some other widespread tools and technologies can be of great help for setting up and managing a Microservices architecture. Of course, embracing the DevOps method of working is highly important, significant, and well-needed for the technologies to work at their best. After all, Kubernetes and DevOps are considered the power couple of the cloud. Hence, opting for the Kubernetes workflow can streamline the build/test/deploy pipelines in DevOps.
By the year 2020, more than 50% of companies will use container technology, up from less than 20% in 2017
“Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications”. – Kubernetes
Developed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in the Go language, Kubernetes is a cluster management software that was released in the year 2014 and there is no looking back since then.
The one big reason Kubernetes was able to prove its worth for Microservices was that it could easily segregate configuration from orchestration. Since Kubernetes had a history of coming up from Google’s ‘Borg’ project, there was a certain extent of sophistication it brought along. Kubernetes works natively with microservices and is a good way to deploy basic, and even more complex microservices architectures without too much of a hassle.
Good Read: Kubernetes In 10 Minutes
It is thought-provoking to see how the microservices architecture offered so much impetus to the acceptance of container technologies such as Kubernetes. While originally, it was the microservices way of working driving these technologies onwards, now it is Kubernetes defining the microservices architecture philosophies and procedures.
Using microservices is more like a journey rather than a destination. As you keep using it, there are frequent changes that occur in the way you develop software, which turn out to be creative, lucrative, and effective for the project. Kubernetes, with its key features, has been competent enough to bring out the best in the microservices architecture. Wait and watch till Kubernetes and Microservices serve as the face of the future for enterprises. Not a long wait for sure!
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