Microservice and SOA architectures are becoming increasingly common today, even in traditional environments. As your systems grow more distributed, you’ll face challenges beyond those seen in monolithic applications.

• Static property files and other simple techniques become too unwieldy to effectively manage configuration, especially for sensitive properties such as passwords.
• As instances of a service come or go due to scaling, migration, or failure, the things which depend on that service need a way to find a valid current location.
• With so much new inter-process communication, it is important to secure the REST and middleware traffic connecting your services.

In this session, we’ll look at modern tools like Consul and Vault for solving these problems of service discovery and monitoring, configuration management, and security.

• Discuss the advantages of smart DNS over traditional load balancers.
• Walk through some approaches for centralizing the configuration of all your services.
• Show how to use Vault as a private certificate authority, for powerful control over your internal SSL communication.

Steve and Amit will approach the topic from an application development perspective and a DevOps perspective, respectively. We’ll cover popular abstraction layers such as Spring Cloud Config, but focus on framework-agnostic solutions.