Patent attributes
A microservice join request is received by a first microservice from a second microservice within a microservices system. The microservice join request includes microservice trust relationship information of the second microservice that defines microservice credentials and service description parameters of the second microservice. Using the microservice trust relationship information, a determination is made as to whether a consensus exists among other microservices within the microservices system that the second microservice is authorized to inter-operate within the microservices system. In response to determining that the consensus exists, validated local run-time inter-operational microservice trust relationship information is created. At least one run-time inter-operation request is received that includes a relationship trust token from the second microservice. A run-time inter-operational connection is established with the second microservice in response to determining that parameters of the relationship trust token match the respective parameters of the validated local run-time inter-operational microservice trust relationship information.