Application Complexities
One of the complexities of microservices is the loss of the application package and the ability to track changes in the application over time. Because microservices are loosely coupled, it can be hard to see how your application changes unless you practice microservice versioning. The need to track changes in your software project and understand what version of each Component you are using is still required.
Remember, each time a microservice is updated, it creates a new version of your application. For this reason, you will find yourself asking several important questions, for example:
- “What version of a microservice is this version of my application using?”
- “Who is using my microservice?”
- “When can I deprecate the service?”
- “Who created this microservice?”
DeployHub manages this level of data to easily answer these questions and track your microservice application supply chain and versions over time.
As you decompose your monolithic application into several independently deployed components, you realize the need to track service-to-application relationships, including their versions. At DeployHub we believe that a microservice update with versioning is the safest and most efficient method of getting the job done. And capturing that information before anything is deployed is the safest way to manage change.
We don’t want to wait for an incident report to learn that something went wrong. Knowledge is key to eliminating confusion and risk when components are being released via the CI/CD Pipeline all day long.
