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Containerize

Containerize

- [Instructor] Once you've moved to a microservice-based architecture, it should be relatively straightforward to move your services to containers. In fact, I recommend as you split services out of your monolith, you containerize them directly as part of the migration. When you deploy the new services to production, deploy them as containerized services. This does beg the question though about how you will deploy those containers to production. Eventually, at some time during the migration, you'll want to move to a container orchestration and management layer, such as Kubernetes. Before you get too many services and containers operating, you'll want to make this transition. However, you don't have to do this before you deploy your first container-based service. You can operate your containers in a standalone environment temporarily. This will ease the burden of the initial service development efforts. But I honestly…

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