Micro Examples

This is a repository for micro examples. Feel free to contribute.

Contents

• greeter - A complete greeter example (includes python, ruby examples)
• sidecar - Greeter service using the sidecar with multiple languages
• booking - A booking.com demo application
• plugins - How to use plugins
• broker - A example of using Broker for Publish and Subscribing.
• client - Usage of the Client package to call a service.
• graceful - Demonstrates graceful shutdown of a service
• redirect - An example of how to http redirect using an API service
• server - Use of the Server package directly to server requests.
• service - Example of the top level Service in go-micro.
• shutdown - Demonstrates graceful shutdown via context cancellation
• template - Api, web and srv service templates generated with the 'micro new' command
• grpc - Examples of how to use go-grpc

External

• auth-srv - An Oauth2 authentication service
• geo-srv - Geolocation tracking service using hailocab/go-geoindex
• geo-web - Web demo for the geo srv
• geo-api - API for the geo srv
• discovery-srv - A discovery in the micro platform
• geocode-srv - A geocoding service using the Google Geocoding API
• hailo-srv - A service for the hailo taxi service developer api
• monitor-srv - A monitoring service for Micro services
• place-srv - A microservice to store and retrieve places (includes Google Place Search API)
• slack-srv - The slack bot API as a go-micro RPC service
• trace-srv - A distributed tracing microservice in the realm of dapper, zipkin, etc
• twitter-srv - A microservice for the twitter API
• user-srv - A microservice for user management and authentication

Dependencies

Service Discovery

All services require service discovery. The default is Consul or MDNS.

Consul

Install

brew install consul

Run

consul agent -dev

Multicast DNS

Use flag --registry=mdns for a zero dependency configuration

Protobuf

Protobuf is used for code generation of message types and client/hander stubs.

If making changes recompile the protos.

Install

go get github.com/micro/protobuf/{proto,protoc-gen-go}

Compile Proto

protoc -I$GOPATH/src --go_out=plugins=micro:$GOPATH/src \
        $GOPATH/src/github.com/micro/examples/service/proto/greeter.proto