Jeopardy Assessment for Dynamic Configuration of Collaborative Microservice Architectures

Microservice architectures, which are lightweight, flexible, and adapt easily to changes, have recently been considered for system development in military operations in contested and dynamic environments. However, in a military setting, the dynamic configuration of collaborative microservices execution becomes critical, and testing that microservice configurations behave as expected becomes paramount. In this paper, we propose a complex jeopardy metric and reconfiguration process that dynamically configures collaborative algorithms running on multiple nodes. Our metric and proposed scenarios will allow for the automated evaluation of microservice configurations and their re-configuration to suit operational needs. We evaluate our proposed scenario, metric, and various reconfiguration algorithms to show the benefits of this approach.