A learner recently emailed us saying:
There is a statement in this chapter: “However, note that microservice architectures can only work when the deployment is automated!” In my opinion this is not true. A Software architecture model is not tightly coupled with a deployment methodology – although CD has its clear advantages, it is not a defining factor of what a microservice architecture is.
So we contacted the author of the course, Eberhard Wolff, to help answer this question and here’s what he had to say:
the paragraph continues:
Microservices substantially increase the number of deployable units
compared to a deployment monolith. This is only feasible when the
deployment processes are automated.Microservices are independently deployable artifacts so that statement
should be true. I find it hard to imagine that the number of
microservices in a typical project can be handled without deployment
automation but YMMV.
We hope this helps other learners. Thank for taking this course and feel free to comment here!
Happy learning,
Team Educative