What is monolithic?
Monolithic in general is something that is a single large block, indivisible, inflexible, and moveable. So that briefly explains at a high level about monolithic architecture unity and its characteristics as well.
Monolithic application in IT is an application built based on monolithic architecture. It is self-contained which means it contains all parts of applications packaged and deployed together. So to simplify this you can imagine this like a big container where all software components of applications are assembled together and tightly packed and deployed as a single unit. Imagine that you have developed an application on the Java platform, then you can package them using various formats such as .jar accordingly and which is then finally deployed as a single unit onto the application server.
Kubernetes – Monolithic Architecture of Kubernetes
There is a new way of developing software apps using a microservices architecture. That’s when all the buzz around containers and container orchestration has increased but we have been developing and using these large software apps even before most of us were born. So in this article, we will be discussing what is that old software architecture we used even before microservices and what are the disadvantages of it that led to shifting our focus to microservices.
So coming to the primary objectives of this article, there are four major things that we’ll discuss:
- What is Monolithic?
- What is monolithic architecture?
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Monolithic Architecture.
- Challenges of Monolithic architecture.