Documentation of microservice-based software systems

Documenting dynamic software systems such as those that follow a microservice-based architecture is complex. This is mainly due to the need to take into account different stakeholders with different perspectives and the fact that the required information is distributed across different systems. The constantly changing architecture of these systems makes manual documentation of the system time-consuming and therefore also cost-intensive. For this reason it is necessary to automate the documentation of dynamic systems. This thesis deals with the implementation of a dashboard that keeps the documentation up to date and in which it is possible to integrate information from different systems. At the beginning of the thesis basic terms from the fields of software architecture and architecture documentation are discussed. Subsequently requirements for the dashboard are defined which were derived from existing literature and a survey. Finally the implemented dashboard for the documentation of microservice-based software architectures is presented.