With microservices outer architecture the gateway pattern is something quite popular, which is also elaborately explained at nginx blogs. In summary, linking your microservices directly to the client applications is almost always considered a bad idea.
You need to keep updating and upgrading ur microservices and you should be able to do it transparently. With a larger services based ecosystem microservices wont always be HTTP bound, its probably be using jms, mqtt or maybe thrift for their transports. In such scenarios having a gateway to deal with those complexities is always a good idea.
Proving the concept I created couple of microservices (ticket listing/catalog service, ticket purchase service and a validate service) which get deployed in their respective containers. WSO2 Gateway act as the microservice gateway in this PoC and the routs are defines in it. Gateway also deploys in a container on its own.
To build the microservices I am using MSF4j the popular microservices framework and the ticket data is stored in a redis store.
The PoC is committed to github with setup instructions, do try it out and leave a comment.
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