TinyChat

• Microservices framework: go-kratos
• Api Gateway: grpc-gateway
• OpenAPI descriptions with protoc-gen-openapi
• PostgreSQL database
• Unit tests with testify
• Tracing: Jaeger
• Metrics: Prometheus & Grafana dashboards
• Messages Broker: Kafka
• Orchestration: K8s
• File storage
• Deploying to GKE
• Integration tests

Build

Build docker images of all services:

make all-imgs

Docker

Deploy services locally with docker:

docker compose up -d

Kubernetes

Deploy services on minikube using helm

minikube start --feature-gates=GRPCContainerProbe=true

kubectl create namespace tiny-chat
kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=tiny-chat

kubectl create secret generic grafana-auth \
  --from-literal=admin-user=admin \
  --from-literal=admin-password=admin

make load-imgs

helm dependency update
helm install tiny-chat tiny-chat-chart

To forward pod's port to localhost:

kubectl port-forward POD_NAME LOCALHOST_PORT:POD_PORT