Architecture of Microfrontends using Kubernetes

1. Micro-frontends using
Kubernetes
Vishwanath Shankar

2. About myself
• Staff Software Engineer at GE.
• Speaker at various meetups and tech events.

3. Frontend libraries
• Microfrontends and
Microservices?
• Lot of choices.
• Designed to solve particular
problem.

4. Advantages of
Microservices
INDEPENDENT
TECHNOLOGY.
INDEPENDENT
DEVELOPMENT.
INDEPENDENT
TESTING.
INDEPENDENT
DEPLOYMENT.
HIGHLY AGILE
AND FAST TO
MARKET.

5. Microservices principles to Frontend?
• Mix and match different frontend
stacks?
• Front end still remains a monolith.

6. Microfrontend
puzzle
• Bundle of sticks.

7. Is MF a hypothetical problem?
Organizational
enforcement.
Inorganic growth. Pre sales team.

8. Techniques
for micro-
frontends
• Iframes
• Advantages and
Disadvantages

9. Techniques for micro-
frontends
• Web components
• Advantages and Disadvantages

10. MF with Kubernetes API
gateways.
• Advantages
• Can easily achieve MF.
• No code rewrite.
• Authentication and authorization at the API
Gateway level.

11. MF with
Kubernetes API
gateways.
• Disadvantages
• CSS consistency.
• Performance pinch.

12. Thank you

13. Q&A and Connect
• LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishwanath-
shankar-8233418/
• Twitter: @svishwa787