How to develop, build, and deploy Node.js microservices with Pulumi and Azure DevOps

The workshop focuses on deploying Node.js microservices using technologies like Bluemix and Azure cloud.

The instructors for the workshop are Alex Porjikov and Andrew Haj.

The workshop will cover technologies such as Node.js, Bluemix, Azure cloud, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and Pulumi.

gRPC is a modern open-source remote procedure call framework developed by Google that enables client and server applications to communicate and make it easier to build connected systems.

Protocol Buffers is a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism developed by Google for serializing structured data, used primarily in communication protocols, data storage, and more.

Docker is used to containerize the Node.js microservices, allowing them to run in isolated environments. It helps in packaging the application with all its dependencies to ensure consistency across different environments.

Pulumi is a developer-centric tool for creating infrastructure as code using familiar programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, C#, and F#. Unlike Terraform, which uses a dedicated configuration language (HCL), Pulumi allows for more flexible and expressive configurations using general-purpose programming languages.

Azure DevOps is used for managing the code repository, running CI/CD pipelines, and handling task organization and user management for the microservices project.

Participants can ask questions in the chat or post messages during the workshop to get help from the instructors.

An ingress in Kubernetes is a collection of rules that allow inbound connections to reach the cluster services. It provides HTTP and HTTPS routing to services based on hostnames and paths.