In this liveProject, you’ll take on the role of a Java/Kotlin developer tasked with implementing the service template’s observability-related features—key aspects of production-readiness—including a health check API, application metrics, and distributed tracing. Work will be done in Kotlin.

In this liveProject, you’ll add security-related features to the service template. In your role as a Java/Kotlin developer, you’ll gain hands-on Kotlin experience implementing authentication and authorization of a service’s REST API using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) as well as a Security Token Service, such as Keycloak, to issue and authenticate JWTs.

In this liveProject, you’ll progressively enhance a service template, starting with packaging it as a container image. Next, you’ll build and run a service template container with Docker Compose, write component tests for a service, and finally build and test a container image. When you’re finished, you’ll have a Github repository that automatically pushes a tested container image to a Docker registry. This project focuses on Kotlin.

Make your Java/Kotlin developer colleagues’ lives easier by enabling them—and you!—to quickly maintain services that were cloned from the service template. In this liveProject, you’ll extract a microservice chassis from the service template project, create Gradle plugins, and publish chassis artifacts and template source code. When you’re done, you’ll have a small service template project that uses a much larger microservice chassis framework. (Your colleagues will thank you!) Work will be done in Kotlin.