microservice-template

A microservice template

This projects targets to provide a template for a go based microservice. Things to be adapted are marked with a TODO within this repository.

Building

The following dependencies are needed to use the full capacities of the template:

• acbuild
• curl
• docker
• go
• gometalinter
• make
• mockgen
• protobuf go
• protobuf
• rkt
• unzip

Building the main service library can be done with a simple make. For verbose builds run make VERBOSE=1. The main command line client can be build with go build main.go within the root directory of the repository.

Common make targets

Make targets used for development are:

• make: Builds the statically linked microservice into ./deploy/main
• make doc: Run source and package documentation server and open it in the browser
• make utest: Run the unit tests
• make mtest: Run the module tests
• make itest: Run the integration tests
• make bench: Run the benchmarks
• make docker: Build a local docker image as tarball in ./deploy/microservice-template.tar
• make dockerload: Load the local docker image into the local running docker server
• make rk: Build a local rkt image as aci in ./deploy/microservice.aci
• make clean: Cleans the whole working directory

Installation

All binaries can be easily installed with: make install, which should install the library and the executable service to your $GOBIN directory. The service executable is the main interface of the service. For more information simply execute service -h or go run main.go -h.

Testing

The unit tests within this template should be fully mocked. If you want to run the integration tests the following dependencies needs to be fulfilled.

• kubectl
• kubernetes