Related Concepts

Application: a software system that implements a complete service. An application consists of multiple microservices, which can discover and call each other.
Microservice: a software system that implements a specific service function. Microservices are independently developed and deployed.
Microservice instance: An instance is generated when a microservice is deployed in the runtime environment using the deployment system. An instance can be considered a process, and multiple instances can be deployed for a microservice.
Microservice environment: a logical concept established by the service center, which can be development or production. Microservice instances in different environments are logically isolated and cannot be discovered or called by each other.

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