Microservices Platforms - part 7: Deployment platform

This is the seventh article in a series based on my QCon San Francisco 2025 talk Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns. The articles in the series are:

• Microservices Platforms - part 1: Overview
• Microservices Platforms - part 2: Service foundation platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 3: Security platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 4: Infrastructure services platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 5: Observability platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 6: Build platform
• Microservices Platforms - part 7: Deployment platform

This article describes the Deployment platform, which provides production and production-like environments that run the application’s services. Together with the Build platform, it defines the path that changes take from laptop to production.

Let’s start by looking at how services are deployed and why that’s complicated.