The use of microservices-based architecture to realize complex, evolving solutions is growing in popularity. Microservices make it much easier to replace or upgrade components mid-flight. It also allows multiple developers to work on different aspects of the overall solution without affecting each other.
However, microservices architecture comes with its own security challenges. Someone who might want to use it must carefully examine these challenges from the start to ensure data is private and secure, and that the system remains up when needed.
What is Microservices-Based Architecture?
Microservices are small, containerized application services that perform a single task or a small group of related tasks, unlike traditional, monolithic applications that handle a broad range of tasks. It is, therefore, vital to use container security tools that have been developed just for the microservices architecture environment.
Microservices architecture has several unique vulnerabilities as a direct result of its modular nature. Applications developed using microservices architecture are complicated and open. They have a much larger attack surface area than more traditional application models.
Microservices communicate via application programming interfaces (APIs) that are independent of machine architecture and even programming language. As a result, they have more exposed surface than traditional subroutines or functionalities of a large application, which only interact with other parts of the same application. Therefore, more potential attacks apply to them.
Due to the rapid development cycle and the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) approach to microservices architecture, developers do not do code testing as a single event at the end of development, but rather in an ongoing process. They must manage this testing properly.
..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
