Best Practices For Microservices on Kubernetes

There are several best practices for building microservices architecture properly. You may find many articles about it online. One of them is my previous article Spring Boot Best Practices For Microservices. I focused there on the most important aspects that should be considered when running microservice applications built on top of Spring Boot on production. I didn’t assumed there any platform used for orchestration or management, but just a group of independent applications. In this article I’m going to extend the list of already introduced best practices with some new rules dedicated especially for microservices deployed on Kubernetes platform.

Spring Boot Best Practices for Microservices

In this article I’m going to propose my list of “golden rules” for building Spring Boot applications, which are a part of microservices-based system. I’m basing on my experience in migrating monolithic SOAP applications running on JEE servers into REST-based small applications built on top of Spring Boot. This list of best practices assumes you are running many microservices on the production under a huge incoming traffic. Let’s begin.