Micro is a microservice toolkit. It simplifies writing and running distributed systems.

Check out go-micro if you want to start writing services in Go now. Examples of how to write services in other languages can be found in examples/greeter.

Learn more about Micro in the introductory blog post https://blog.micro.mu/2016/03/20/micro.html.

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The goal of Micro is to provide a toolkit for microservice development and management. At the core, micro is simple and accessible enough that anyone can easily get started writing microservices. As you scale to hundreds of services, micro will provide the fundamental tools required to manage a microservice environment.

Go Micro - A pluggable RPC framework for writing microservices in Go. It provides libraries for service discovery, client side load balancing, encoding, synchronous and asynchronous communication.

API - An API Gateway that serves HTTP and routes requests to appropriate micro services. It acts as a single entry point and can either be used as a reverse proxy or translate HTTP requests to RPC.

Web - A web dashboard and reverse proxy for micro web applications. We believe that web apps should be built as microservices and therefore treated as a first class citizen in a microservice world. It behaves much the like the API reverse proxy but also includes support for web sockets.

Sidecar - The Sidecar provides all the features of go-micro as a HTTP service. While we love Go and believe it's a great language to build microservices, you may also want to use other languages, so the Sidecar provides a way to integrate your other apps into the Micro world.

CLI - A straight forward command line interface to interact with your micro services. It also allows you to leverage the Sidecar as a proxy where you may not want to directly connect to the service registry.

Bot A Hubot style bot that sits inside your microservices platform and can be interacted with via Slack, HipChat, XMPP, etc. It provides the features of the CLI via messaging. Additional commands can be added to automate common ops tasks.

Learn how to write and run a microservice using go-micro.

Read the Getting Started guide or the blog post on Writing microservices with Go-Micro.

$ go get github.com/micro/micro

Or via Docker

$ docker pull microhq/micro

We need service discovery, so let's spin up Consul (default discovery mechanism; checkout go-plugins to switch it out).

$ go get github.com/hashicorp/consul
$ consul agent -dev -advertise=127.0.0.1

Alternatively we can use multicast DNS with the built in MDNS registry for a zero dependency configuration. Just pass --registry=mdns to the below commands e.g. server --registry=mdns or micro --registry=mdns list services.

Run the greeter example app

$ go get github.com/micro/micro/examples/greeter/server
$ server
2016/06/20 03:03:39 Listening on [::]:62525
2016/06/20 03:03:39 Broker Listening on [::]:62526
2016/06/20 03:03:39 Registering node: go.micro.srv.greeter-34c55534-368b-11e6-b732-68a86d0d36b6

List services

$ micro list services
consul
go.micro.srv.greeter

Get Service

$ micro get service go.micro.srv.greeter
service  go.micro.srv.greeter

version 1.0.0

Id	Address	Port	Metadata
go.micro.srv.greeter-34c55534-368b-11e6-b732-68a86d0d36b6	192.168.1.66	62525	server=rpc,registry=consul,transport=http,broker=http

Endpoint: Say.Hello
Metadata: stream=false

Request: {
	name string
}

Response: {
	msg string
}

Query service

$ micro query go.micro.srv.greeter Say.Hello '{"name": "John"}'
{
	"msg": "Hello John"
}

Read more on how to use the Micro CLI

The overarching project github.com/micro is a microservice ecosystem which consists of a number of tools and libraries. Each of which can either be used totally independently, plugged into your architecture or combined as a whole to provide a completely distributed systems platform.

It currently consists of the following.

Go-micro is a pluggable Go client framework for writing microservices. Go-micro can be used standalone and should be the starting point for writing applications.

Micro provides entry points into a running system with an API Gateway, Web UI, HTTP Sidecar and CLI. Micro can be used to manage the public facing aspect of your services and will normally run at the edge of your infrastructure.

Go-platform provides pluggable libraries for integrating with higher level requirements for microservices. It mainly integrates functionality for distributed systems at scale. It includes authentication, monitoring, distributed tracing, dynamic configuration and much more.

Platform is a complete runtime for managing microservices at scale. Where Micro provides the core essentials, the platform goes a step further and addresses every requirement for large scale distributed system deployments.

Go Plugins provides plugins for go-micro and go-platform contributed by the community. Examples could include; circuit breakers, rate limiting. Registries built on top of Kubernetes, Zookeeper, etc. Transport using HTTP2, Zeromq, etc. Broker using Kafka, AWS SQS, etc.

Apache 2.0

1. Join the Slack to discuss
2. Look at existing coding style
3. Submit PR
4. ?
5. Profit

We're looking for implementations equivalent to go-micro in different languages. Come join the Slack to discuss.