Pact Broker: A Guide to Sharing Contracts for Microservices
Welcome to the final episode of our Pact series! I'm your Engineering Coach, and in this video, we'll introduce the Pact Broker, the central hub for all your consumer-driven contracts.
After seeing how to test a consumer and a producer in our previous videos, you might be asking, "How do they find each other?" The Pact Broker is the answer. We'll show you how to use it to publish contracts from the consumer and retrieve them for verification by the producer.
You'll see how this process gives you a complete, real-time view of the compatibility of your microservices. This is the final and most important step for any team that wants to adopt consumer-driven contract testing in a professional environment.
The code for this episode can be found in our previous GitHub repositories:
Consumer: https://github.com/the-engineering-co...
Producer: https://github.com/the-engineering-co...
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