Microservices sample project

This Github repository features a small microservices sample, using the following libraries:

• Spring Boot: together with Jetty as application runner within the Docker containers.
• Docker and Docker compose: Docker images are generated and composed in order to run this example.
• Spring Cloud: abstract Netflix OSS tooling with the Spring Cloud suite.
• Netflix OSS libraries:
  • Zuul proxy: Used to unify all access to services.
  • Eureka Discovery: Used to keep track of alive service instances.
  • Ribbon: Used to load balance on the client (or invoker) side.
  • Hystrix: Used to monitor failure and short-circuit in case it's needed.
  • Turbine: Used to monitor service status on a distributed fashion.
• Angular2: Used to create a simple front application that consumes the exposed REST services. This application includes lazy loading and ahead of time (AOT) compilation.
• Webpack: Used to package the Angular2 application and deliver the distributable objects into the microservice.

Content

On top of the mentioned libraries, this sample provides two services:

• Authors-service: service which contains a very simple authors repository.
• Books-service: service which contains a very simple books repository.
• Releases-service: service which contains a very simple releases repository.
• Front-service: service which contains a very simple Angular2 front application.

The books service uses the authors service in order to retrieve authors data, serving as a sample of service communication within Docker containers.
The front service publishes a frontend application which consumes and manipulates the data exposed by the services.

Running the sample

I've ran this test with the following Ubuntu, Docker and Docker compose versions:

• Ubuntu: 16.04
• Docker API: 1.25
• Docker Version: 1.13.0
• NPM version: 3.10.10
• Node version: 6.9.4
• Webpack: 2.2.0
• Angular 2: 2.4.6

You ought to follow these steps in order to run this sample on your local machine.

1. Compile the images and get them into your local Docker registry:

On the parent project folder, execute a Maven package command:

sudo mvn clean install -P docker

2. Run the generated images using Docker compose:

After you've compiled the projects, you should be able to see the images on your local registry:

sudo docker images

In order to execute the example, run the docker-compose.yml file using the following command at the parent project folder:

sudo docker-compose up

Optional: You may want to redirect the console output generated into a file. In this case, use the following command instead:

sudo docker-compose up > yourfilename.log