bricks - a standard library for microservices

PACE Bricks

Opinionated microservice kit to help developers to build microservices with go.

Opinions

A pace/bricks microservice is:

• built as a docker container
• deployed into a kubernetes cluster
  • support for the termination log
• configured using environment variables ( TWELVE-FACTOR APP )
• monitored using prometheus
• reports errors to sentry
• samples traces to jaeger
• logs to stdout using json deployed kubernetes otherwise human readable
• offers health endpoints
• connects to backend services
  • postgres (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • redis (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • s3 (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • http (logging, metrics, tracing, retries)
• provides two commands control and daemon
• provides a RESTful API
  • code is generated from the OpenAPIv3 spec
  • authenticated via OAuth2
  • encoded using json:api
  • that supports logging , tracing and metrics

Install

go get github.com/pace/bricks/cmd/pb

Usage

pb -h

Contributing

Read our contributors guide .

Requirements

• A working go installation
• A working git installation

Testing

• Use make test to test without dependencies
• Use docker-compose run testserver make integration to test with dependencies
• Use make testserver to start a testserver that will be started with dependencies. In order to update the server one need to docker-compose restart testserver

Environment variables for the pb command