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A Microservices Architecture

Simple gif showing how to setup project, run, and scale it:

Whats this and its goal

This is somehow an environment to run and scale microservices.

To know about its goals, read: https://github.com/armand1m/microservices/wiki/Goal

How it is structured

This project actually is only a project that has a docker-compose.yml file with some services defined, that are also git submodules.

These services connect to a consul instance in order to be found by the ebay/fabio instance, so it can load balance and be used as an API Gateway for them.

What is a service

Essentially, a service is just a RESTful API that can register and deregister itselfs from a Service Discovery instance.

To know more, read: https://github.com/armand1m/microservices/wiki/What-is-a-Service

Starting the project

Make sure you have Docker Daemon running. Make sure you have Git and Docker Compose installed.

# initialize the project and its submodules
$ ./install.sh

# build the services images
$ ./commands/build

# run the environment
$ ./commands/run

Some useful urls:

• Gateway Entrypoint: http://localhost:9999/
• Gateway Route Table: http://localhost:9998/
• Service Discovery Monitoring Panel: http://localhost:8500/

Other commands

Refer to armand1m/microservice-compose-utils README.md to know more.

You can use docker-compose commands normally as well, the project above has only some really simple bash files to speed up common tasks.