An enterprise normally has a few thousand microservices, having autonomy for each team in selecting its own choice of the technology stack. Therefore, it’s inevitable that an enterprise should have a microservices governance mechanism to avoid building an unmanageable and unstable architecture.
Any centralized governance goes against the core principle of microservices architectures i.e. “provide autonomy and agility to the team.” But that also doesn’t mean that we should not have a centralized policy, standards, and best practices that each team should follow. With an enterprise-scale of integrations with multiple systems and complex operations, the question is, “How do we effectively provide decentralized governance?”