Microservices and the PaaS - A True Love Story

Overview

Explore a real-world application of microservices architecture and its deployment on a Platform as a Service (PaaS) in this 50-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Discover why CAAMI-HZIV chose the PaaS offered by Smals within the G-Cloud initiative for their innovative microservice solution. Learn about the challenges faced and how the platform helped overcome them. Gain insights into OpenShift, Docker, and Spring Boot implementation. Understand the transition from traditional architecture to a PaaS solution and the setup of a Belgian government cloud. Delve into topics such as G-CLOUD, compute types, workload types, health care reimbursement projects, resource-driven deployment, application isolation, templates, inter-service communication, zero-downtime deployments, and continuous improvement strategies.

Syllabus

Intro
G-CLOUD?
Entry points
COMPUTE TYPES versus WORKLOAD TYPES
The project - Health care reimbursement
The project - Why Microservices ?
Where do we deploy?
Openshift the components
Resource driven
Move the application through the environments
How to isolate your application
What about Templates ?
how do they communicate
Different ways to communicate
PaaS... connecting services
Zero-downtime deployments
You're in control
and improving...