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Pattern: Sidecar
Context
You have applied the Microservice architecture pattern and architected your system as a set of services.
Problem
Forces
Solution
Implement cross-cutting concerns in a sidecar process or container that runs alongside the service instance.
Examples
Resulting context
Related patterns
The patterns
Application architecture patterns
Decomposition
Deployment patterns
- Multiple service instances per host
- Service instance per host
- Service instance per VM
- Service instance per Container
- Serverless deployment
- Service deployment platform
Cross cutting concerns
Communication style
External API
Transactional messaging
Service discovery
- Client-side discovery
- Server-side discovery
- Service registry
- Self registration
- 3rd party registration
Reliability
Data management
- Database per Service
- Shared database
- Saganew
- API Compositionnew
- CQRS
- Event sourcing
- Application events
Security
Testing
Observability
- Log aggregation
- Application metrics
- Audit logging
- Distributed tracing
- Exception tracking
- Health check API
- Log deployments and changesnew
UI patterns