The central idea behind microservices is that some types of applications become easier to build and maintain when they are broken down into smaller, composable pieces which work together. Each component is continuously developed and separately maintained, and the application is then simply the sum of its constituent components. This is in contrast to a traditional, "monolithic" application which is all developed all in one piece.
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Another option is to use a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool, which lets developers focus on writing code by abstracting some of the underlying orchestration technology and allowing them to easily select off-the-shelf open source components for certain parts of an application, like a database storage engine, a logging service, a continuous integration server, web server, or other pieces of the puzzle. Some PaaS systems like OpenShift directly use upstream projects like Docker and Kubernetes for managing application components, while others try to re-implement management tools themselves.
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