Understanding Service Directory and features
With the advent of microservice applications and multi-cloud deployments, modern applications have become more reliable and scalable. However, due to their distributed architecture, the complexity of resolving services has become harder and harder. Indeed, microservice applications can be deployed either in different cloud environments or on-premises. These distributed applications are likely to change over time and their services too. It is in their nature, and therefore finding the location where the service has moved is very challenging.
For this reason, Google Cloud introduced Service Directory, a fully managed cloud service conceived as a single place to publish, discover, and connect services regardless of their environment. Indeed, Service Directory supports services running in Google Cloud Platform, in other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, and on-premises as well.
Service Directory has the following features:
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