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Fearless Monolith to Microservices Migration – A guided journey

This repository is a clone from ticket-monster-msa/monolith maintained by Christian Posta, who gave permission to reuse it for this cloud migration showcase.

The repository is a monorepo of projects that illustrate migrating a monolith application (TicketMonster) to microservices on Cloud Foundry. For this journey, a blog post series explains the required concepts and best practices. Open the initial blog: Fearless Monolith to Microservices Migration – A guided journey that guides you through the different stages in a structured manner. (A summary of the steps is shown in the Instructions section below.)

Overview

There are a series of projects* used to illustrate a migration to microservices from a Java EE monolith. (*more are coming as the blog series grows)

monolith

The getting started experience begins with the monolith project. In this project we deploy our monolith application and understand the domain, architecture, and structure of the application that will be the foundation for successive iterations.

tm-ui-v*

The tm-ui-v* folders contain different versions of the front-facing UI that we use as we migrate from a monolith to split out the UI to the set of microservices.

backend-v*

The backend-* folders contain the monolith with the UI removed and successive iterations of evolution. With backend-v1, we have taken the monolith as it is and removed the UI. It contains a REST API that can be called from the UI. In backend-v2 we've stated adding feature flags for controlling the introduction of a new microservice. See each respective sub project for more information.

orders-service

The orders-service folder represents the repository of the microservice OrdersService. This microservices is extracted from the backend of TicketMonster and maintains its own data model. The endpoint of the service is /rest/bookings to GET and POST tickets.

load-generation

The load-generation folder contains load generation scripts that simulate end user actions on any UI of TicketMonster. The scripts are running on PhantomJS and the navigation is implemented in CasperJS. The load-generation folder provides a container image to execute the scripts without need to install PhantomJS or CasperJS.

Instructions

1. Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/dynatrace-innovationlab/monolith-to-microservice-cloudfoundry.git

2. Lift-and-shift TicketMonster to Cloud Foundry

  • In directory monolith, follow the Instructions to run TicketMonster on Cloud Foundry.

3. Set a new UI in front of TicketMonster

  • In directory tm-ui-v1, follow the Instructions to set an independent UI in front of TicketMonster.

4. Deploy a new version of TicketMonster with the UI removed

  • In directory backend-v1, follow the Instructions to run a TicketMonster without UI.

5. Set a new UI in front of TicketMonster

  • In directory tm-ui-v2, follow the Instructions to set an independent UI in front of the new backend (backend-v1).

6. Deploy the Microservice OrdersService

  • In directory orders-service, follow the Instructions to create the mysql instance for the microservice and to deploy the microservice.

7. Deploy a new version of TicketMonster with (the UI removed and) the cability of calling the OrdersService

  • In directory backend-v2, follow the Instructions to run a TicketMonster that calls OrdersService for booking tickets.