Question

Your platform team maintains a well-structured microservice repository containing a standard folder layout, CI configuration, and boilerplate code. Several teams across the company want to start brand-new services that begin from this same baseline, without carrying over the original repository's commit history. Which approach best promotes this reuse?

Accepted Answer

Mark the repository as a template repository so teams can generate fresh repositories from it

Answer

Have each team fork the repository to create their new service

Answer

Ask teams to clone the repository locally and push it to a new remote

Answer

Add each team as an outside collaborator on the original repository