Microservices
Quick Definition
Architecture of loosely coupled independently deployable services
Full Definition
An architecture of loosely coupled independently deployable services communicating via APIs.
Examples
API gateways, service discovery, distributed systems
Related Terms
api-gateway
service-mesh
More DevOps Terms
Branching Strategy
Convention for managing parallel development in version control
Shift Left
Moving testing and security checks earlier in development
Ansible
Agentless automation tool using YAML playbooks
Blue-Green Deployment
Strategy with two identical environments for zero-downtime switching
Continuous Delivery
Automatically building and testing code for release
Containerization
Packaging apps with dependencies into isolated containers