From Monolith to Microservice Architecture on Kubernetes, part 1 — The Api Gateway

In this blog series we’ll discuss our journey at Cupenya of migrating our monolithic application to a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes. There’s a lot of talk on microservices and also a lot of great online resources available, but I noticed that practical & pragmatic guidance is often lacking. Therefore, I’ll try to get really hands on.

If you’re unsure what a microservice is, I suggest reading Martin Fowler’s article about them. For the sake of this article my definition of a…