Description

Demo for microservices written in Go.

Requisites

• Docker / Docker Compose
• :)

How to Run

1. hosts file

Make sure you chage your /etc/hosts/ to have backend as 127.0.0.1:

127.0.0.1   localhost backend

2. Run containers

Go into project folder and run:

docker compose up -d

3. Try it out

Access the front-end (see below) and click the buttons to test the communication the microservices.

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Closing

Once you're done, you can stop the containers by going inside the project folder again and running:

docker compose down

Run with Swarm

TODO

Useful addresses:

• Front-end: http://localhost
• Mailhog: http://localhost:8025

Things to enhance

• This readme (swarm; /etc/hosts for Caddy; info about vscode workspace)
• Move some functions to libraries to be reused across microservices
• Optimize dockerfiles multistage for caching