This section follows the creation of a single microservice across three chapters. It starts by presenting an individual REST service implemented in Python, continues with all the requisite steps to implement the service as a self-contained Docker container, and creates a pipeline to ensure that the service always complies with high quality standards.
The first chapter of this section describes the implementation of a single service, following the example presented in the first section. It describes the API interface to be implemented and it uses Python to generate a full-fledged microservice, using tools such as Flask and SQLAlchemy to improve the ease of development. The service includes a testing strategy.
The second chapter of this section shows how to encapsulate the microservice in a...