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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development Build microservices for mobile and web applications using Swift 5 and Vapor 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530889
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ralph Kuepper Ralph Kuepper
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices 2. Understanding Server-Side Swift FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with the Vapor Framework 4. Planning an Online Store Application 5. Creating Your First Microservice 6. Application Structure and Database Design 7. Writing the User Service 8. Testing Microservices 9. Product Management Service 10. Understanding Microservices Communication 11. Order Management Service 12. Best Practices 13. Hosting Microservices 14. Docker and the Cloud 15. Deploying Microservices in the Cloud 16. Scaling and Monitoring Microservices 17. Assessment Answers 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up our services

We will need three services set up for our backend, as seen in the previous chapters. It is time to set up the three services now. This section contains three parts:

  • Setting up Dockerfiles
  • Setting environment variables
  • Running the entire application

Setting up Dockerfiles

A Dockerfile is used by Docker to create a new image. It contains the instructions you want Docker to execute to get to the final image. To set up Dockerfiles, follow the given steps:

  1. Go into each service folder and open the Package.swift file.
  2. Name the service accordingly (UserManager, ProductManager, or OrderManager).
  3. Now create a Dockerfile file in each folder that contains the following commands:
FROM swift:5.1.2 as builder...
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