Service discovery for microservices with mu on AWS

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Casey Lee post about using stelligent.com tool called mu for microservices discovery. mu is a tool that makes it simple and cost-efficient for developers to use AWS as the platform for running their microservices.

One of the biggest benefits of a microservices architecture is that the services can be deployed independently of one another.

Author also discusses common solution to microservices discovery:

  • Load balancer per microservice
  • Shared load balancer
  • Client load balancer

In the article you’ll learn how to create a zuul router service to provide an edge service via Netflix’s Zuul. Zuul is a proxy service that serves as the front door for all requests from outside the microservice environment. Zuul will use Consul for service discovery to determine where best to route the incoming request. Consul is also used for service discovery and registration of your microservices.

If your infrastructure lives on AWS Cloud - have a look!

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