Automated Deployment of a Software Environment for Microservices in a Rapidly Changing Technology Stack

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development and substantiation of practical recommendations regarding the formation of a mechanism for deploying a software environment for creating and executing microservices in a rapidly changing technological stack. The subject of the research is the basics of building a system for automated deployment of a software environment for the development and execution of microservices. The purpose of the article is to develop and substantiate practical recommendations for the formation of a mechanism for deploying a software environment for creating and executing microservices in a rapidly changing technological stack. The task of the work: to determine the necessary elements of the deployment mechanism of the software environment and provide an analysis of the functional load for each of them, set specific tasks that must be solved when building each of them, propose and justify the choice of tools for their solution. In the course of the study, the methods of system analysis were used to decompose a complex system into elements and each element into functional components. As of the study, it was established that such a mechanism should consist of the following elements: a universal server initialization a result subsystem for any technological stack and a software environment deployment subsystem for developing or executing an application of a certain type on a certain technological stack. Each element is described in detail, its functional load is shown and its role in the overall system is substantiated. It is shown that such a standardized approach to the deployment of the development and runtime environment allows, among other things, to solve the problem of operating microservices in a tested environment. Conclusions. Practical recommendations for the formation of a mechanism for deploying a software environment for creating and executing microservices in a rapidly changing technological stack have been developed and substantiated. This mechanism is automated. It shows its flexibility and versatility in relation to programming languages and other features of the software environment. It is pointed out that when implemented in the shell language, bash does not need any third-party applications for its work. The economic benefit of using the proposed mechanism is shown. The ways of its improvement are shown.