mimi - simple service discovery

Checks and sends host information (IP) to a key-value store server.

• The key-value store uses kvstore (simple key-value store over http)

Use case

Get the IP address of nodes on the network that have dynamic or unknown IPs. mimi: Swahili for me.

Usage

• Install the kvstore server on the server to store information from the nodes/machines
• Install mimi:

go get github.com/peteretelej/mimi

• Set KVSTORE and KVCRED environment variables to access the kvstore:

export KVSTORE=http://10.0.1.11:8080
export KVCRED=credential1
# assuming kvstore server is at 10.0.1.11 and has credential "credential1"

• Run mimi: launches agent that checks machine/node info every 5m and sends to kvstore

mimi
# checks if the ip has changed and submits the new one to the kvstore
# If KVSTORE or KVCRED are not set, this will simply return the IP

mimi -interval 1h 
# specify custom check interval of 1hour (default 5minutes)

mimi -myname machineXYZ
# specify custom name to identify this machine (default: machine's hostname)