Summary

This chapter introduced to you the concept of breaking your Vapor or Kitura applications into smaller, self-contained components called microservices. You learned the advantages of using the microservice-oriented architecture. Then you gained a working knowledge of containers and orchestrations. Specifically, you learned how to put your application into a container using Docker as well as how to register and deploy a containized application to a Kubernetes cluster on IBM Cloud. This chapter concludes the book. But for you, this marks the beginning of an exciting new journey with server-side Swift!