Micro Service Definition

Introduction

Use microservice.yaml to describe your service

Conceptions:

• instance: one process is a micro service instance, instances belong to one micro service
• service: service is a static information entity in storage, it has instances

you can consider a project as an micro service, after compile, build and run, it became a micro service instance

Configurations

name

(required, string) Micro service name

hostname

(optional, string) hostname of host, it can be IP, $INTERNAL_IP placeholder or hostname, default is hostname return by os.hostname() When specify hostname: $INTERNAL_IP go-chassis will report ip address instead of hostname to service center, this is useful when hostname is meaningless in some scenes, such as a docker host.

APPLICATION_ID

(optional, string) Application ID, default value is “default”

version

(optional, string) version number default is 0.0.1

properties

(optional, map) micro service metadata ，usually it is defined in project, and never changed

instance_properties

(optional, map) instance metadata, during runtime, if can be different based on environment

paths

(optional, array) micro service API paths, will be registered with servicecenter

Example

service_description:
  name: Server
  hostname: 10.244.1.3
  properties:
    project: X1
  instance_properties:
    nodeIP: 192.168.0.111
  paths:
  - path: /rest/demoservice
    property:
      checksession: true