Microb

A microbiota where to deploy observable Go services. A service can receive and execute commands from the Microb terminal client. Features:

• Remote commands: all services can have remote commands to talk to the Microb server
• Logs: all logs are stored in an sqlite database

Dependencies

• Centrifugo: the websockets server
• Redis: the famous in memory key/value store

Terminal client

A terminal client is used to control Microb instances

Install

go get github.com/synw/microb

Install Centrifugo and Redis

Example usage

Let's do a hello world service. Create a hello_world Go package for your service and a manifest folder in it.

1. Initialize the service

Create an init.go file in the manifest folder:

package hello_world

import (
   "github.com/synw/microb/libmicrob/types"
)

var Service *types.Service = &types.Service{
   "hello_world", // service name
    getCmds(), // function to get the service commands
    initService, // function to initialize the service
}

func initService(dev bool, start bool) error {
    // this service does not need anything
    // special for its initialization
    return nil
}

2. Create some commands

Create a cmds.go file in the manifest folder to define your service commands:

package hello_world

import (
    "github.com/synw/microb/libmicrob/types"
)

func getCmds() map[string]*types.Cmd {
    cmds := make(map[string]*types.Cmd)
    cmds["hello"] = hello()
    return cmds
}

func hello() *types.Cmd {
    // define the command and attach its running function
    cmd := &types.Cmd{Name: "hello", Exec: runHello}
    return cmd
}

func runHello(cmd *types.Cmd, c chan *types.Cmd) {
    // this function will be run on command call
    var resp []interface{}
    resp = append(resp, "Hello world")
    // the command will return "Hello world"
    cmd.ReturnValues = resp
    cmd.Status = "success"
    c <- cmd
}

3. Declare the service server side

Declare the service in Microb: open services/manifest.go in the Microb package and add your service:

package services

import (
    "github.com/synw/microb/libmicrob/types"
    http "github.com/synw/microb-http/manifest"
    infos "github.com/synw/microb/services/infos"
    hello_world "github.com/me/hello_world/manifest"
)

var Services = map[string]*types.Service{
    "infos": infos.Service,
    "http":  http.Service,
    "hello_world":  hello_world.Service,
}

4. Declare the service client side

Now declare the service client-side: go get github.com/synw/microb-cli and open services/manifest.go to add your service in the same way:

package services

import (
    "github.com/synw/microb/libmicrob/types"
    http "github.com/synw/microb-http/manifest"
    infos "github.com/synw/microb/services/infos"
    hello_world "github.com/me/hello_world/manifest"
)

var services = map[string]*types.Service{
   // other services
   "infos": infos.Service,
   "http":  http.Service,
   // declare my service
   "hello_world":  hello_world.Service,
}

5. Update the config files

Update the client and server config.json to enable your service:

{
...
"services":["infos", "http", "hello_world"]
}

Final step: compilation

Compile the client and the server and it's ready to use: sending the command hello from the client will return "Hello world"

Cli commands for the logs service

• get: get the last logs
• errors: get the last errors
• warnings: get the last warnings
• cmds: get the last commands
• state: get the last state changes

Available sevices

• Http: an http server
• Mail: send mails

Stack and data flow

Example of the http service:

Screenshot

The upper terminal shows the server output and the lower one shows the client output:

External libraries

• Viper: configuration management
• Centrifuge-go: Centrifugo server side drivers
• Redigo: drivers for Redis
• Gocent: Centrifugo client side drivers
• Fsm: finite state machine lib
• Go-short-id: unique ids generation
• Skittles: terminal colors