Question

A development team is refactoring a monolithic application into 30 loosely coupled microservices packaged as containers. The workload experiences variable traffic, requires automated rollouts and rollbacks, self-healing when containers crash, and service discovery between components. The operations team wants to minimize manual intervention as the number of containers grows into the hundreds. Which compute design BEST meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Deploy the containers to a managed container orchestration (Kubernetes) cluster that handles scheduling, self-healing, service discovery, and rolling updates

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Deploy all containers to a single large virtual machine using a local container runtime and restart failed containers with a cron job

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Repackage each microservice as a serverless function triggered on demand and remove the container images entirely

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Provision one dedicated virtual machine per microservice and use a load balancer to distribute traffic among them