Introduction

Struggling with connecting and maintaining your microservices in Kubernetes? As the number of microservices grows, the difficulty and complexity of maintaining your distributed fleet of services grows exponentially. Messaging can provide a clean solution to this issue, but legacy message queues come with their own set of problems.

In this article, I’ll share the benefits of messaging in Kubernetes and the difficulties that can come with legacy solutions. I’ll also briefly look at KubeMQ, which attempts to address some of the traditional problems with messaging in Kubernetes.

Why Messaging in Kubernetes?

As a microservice-based architecture grows, it can be difficult to connect each of these distributed services. Issues of security, availability, and latency have to be addressed for each point-to-point interaction. Furthermore, as the number of services increases, the number of potential connections also grows. For example, consider an environment with only three services. These three services have a total of three potential connections:

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