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Microservices on Azure

Build resilient, highly scalable, and distributed applications to deliver value faster.

What are microservices?

Microservices are an architectural approach to building applications where each core function, or service, is built and deployed independently. Microservice architecture is distributed and loosely coupled, so one component’s failure won’t break the whole app. Independent components work together and communicate with well-defined API contracts. Build microservice applications to meet rapidly changing business needs and bring new functionalities to market faster.

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Easily manage new feature releases, updates, and bug fixes in individual components without redeploying the entire application. Automate software delivery workflow with a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline like GitHub Actions.

 

 

 

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Scale individual services and subsystems based on resource needs without scaling out the entire application. Pack a higher density of services into a single host using a container orchestrator like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

 

 

 

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Replace or retire individual services without affecting the entire application. Unlike the traditional monolithic application model, microservices platforms use patterns such as circuit breaking to tolerate individual service failure, improving security and reliability. To make this easier, install a service mesh using the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

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Choose your team's preferred deployment approach, language, microservices platform, and programming model for each service. Publish your microservice APIs for internal and external consumption while managing crosscutting concerns such as authentication, authorization, throttling, caching, transformation, and monitoring with Azure API Management.

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Explore microservice solution architectures

Building microservices on Azure

Learn what microservices are, including benefits and challenges.

Using domain analysis to model microservices

Get a set of well-designed microservices using the domain-driven design (DDD) framework.

Identifying microservice boundaries

Start from a carefully designed domain model to reason about the right size of a microservice.

Design patterns for microservices

Explore design patterns that help mitigate some of the challenges that arise with microservices.

Building a CI/CD pipeline for microservices

Create a good CI/CD process to achieve faster and more reliable release cycles.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solution journey

Learn about AKS, align your organization around roles and responsibilities, and deploy production-ready workloads.

Learn more about products and services for microservices architecture

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Highly available, secure, and fully managed Kubernetes service.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service, jointly operated with Red Hat.

Azure Functions

Azure Functions

An event-driven serverless compute platform that also solves complex orchestration problems.

Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps

Build and deploy modern apps using serverless containers.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB

Fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale.

Azure Container Registry

Azure Container Registry

A registry of Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images and artifacts.

Azure API Management

Azure API Management

Hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments.

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