Challenges

Increased operations effort #

• The operation of a microservice system requires more effort than running a deployment monolith.
  • This is due to the fact that in a microservice system, many more deployable units exist that all have to be deployed and monitored.
  • This is feasible only when the operation is largely automated and the correct functioning of the microservices is guaranteed via appropriate monitoring.

Must Be Independently Deployable #

• Microservices have to be independently deployable. For example, dividing them, into Docker containers is a prerequisite for this, but it is not enough on its own.
• Changes to interfaces must be implemented in such a way that an independent deployment of individual microservices is still possible.
  • For example, the microservice which implements the interface has to offer the new and the old interface. Then this microservice can be deployed without requiring that the calling microservice be deployed at the same time.

Testing must be independent #

• Also, testing must be independent. When all microservices have to be tested together, one microservice can block the test stage and prevent the deployment of the other microservices making testing much harder.

• Due to the split into microservices, there are more interfaces to test, and testing has to be independent for both sides of the interface.