addservice

Addservice is a term used in software engineering to describe the operation of introducing or registering a service within a system. It is commonly used in service-oriented architectures, microservices, and component models to denote making a service available to other parts of the application or to a registry.

In service discovery and registries, addservice registers a service instance with a central registry or catalog. The registration typically includes the service name, network endpoint, version, and optional metadata such as environment, tags, or health check URL. The registry uses this information to route requests, provide load balancing, and perform health checks to determine service availability.

In dependency injection and component models, addservice (or AddService) refers to registering a service type and its implementation with an inversion-of-control container. This allows the container to resolve dependencies at runtime, potentially associating lifetimes such as singleton or scoped to the registered service.

In deployment and orchestration, some toolchains expose an addservice operation to extend the set of services deployed in a cluster or environment. This may involve registering new services with the orchestrator, updating routing rules, or provisioning required resources. Security, access control, and validation are typically part of the process to prevent unauthorized registrations.

Examples include: registry.addService('inventory', 'http://10.0.0.5:8080', version='1.2.3', env='prod'); container.AddService(IInventory, InventoryImpl).WithLifetime('Singleton'). In practice, the exact syntax and semantics vary by platform, but the core idea is to register a service so that other components can discover and consume it. See also: service registry, service discovery, dependency injection, microservices.