dashboard-service

Dashboard Service

A web application that displays a numeric dashboard. It retrieves a count from a backend counting service and displays a live update.

For use in learning to use Consul for service discovery and segmentation (connection via secure proxies).

Defaults to running on port 80. Set PORT as ENV var to specify another port.

Defaults to looking for the counting-service running at localhost:9001. Can be set with the COUNTING_SERVICE_URL ENV var.

Run precompiled binary

To run with the defaults (port 80, looking for the backend counting service at localhost:9001):

dashboard-service

To run on a specific port or looking for the counting-service elsewhere:

PORT=9002 COUNTING_SERVICE_URL=counting.service.consul dashboard-service

Build

Build for Linux and Darwin:

./bin/build

Output can be found in dist.

Run from source

go get
PORT=9002 go run main.go

View

http://localhost:9002

Dependencies

This application assumes that a counting service is running on localhost:9001.