Collaboration service to support cross-process coordination between active instances of a microservice

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code is executable by one or more processors to implement a method comprising:

• running a plurality of active instances of a given microservice of a computing system comprising a distributed microservices architecture;
• executing, by a first active instance of the plurality of active instances, a portion of program code of the given microservice to perform a job, wherein the portion of the program code of the given microservice comprises an instance synchronization element which is configured to enable cross-process coordination between the plurality of active instances of the given microservice with the support of a collaboration service;
• and
• utilizing, by the first active instance, the instance synchronization element to communicate with the collaboration service and cause the collaboration service to execute a process associated with the instance synchronization element to thereby implement the cross-process coordination between the plurality of active instances for executing the job.

A server node, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• system memory configured to store program code, wherein the program code is executable by the at least one processor to perform a process comprising:
• running a plurality of active instances of a given microservice of a computing system comprising a distributed microservices architecture;
• executing, by a first active instance of the plurality of active instances, a portion of program code of the given microservice to perform a job, wherein the portion of the program code of the given microservice comprises an instance synchronization element which is configured to enable cross-process coordination between the plurality of active instances of the given microservice with the support of a collaboration service;
• and
• utilizing, by the first active instance, the instance synchronization element to communicate with the collaboration service and cause the collaboration service to execute a process associated with the instance synchronization element to thereby implement the cross-process coordination between the plurality of active instances for executing the job.