Podinfo is a tiny web application made with Go that showcases best practices of running microservices in Kubernetes.
Specifications:
- Release automation (Make/TravisCI/CircleCI/Quay.io/Google Cloud Container Builder/Skaffold/Weave Flux)
- Multi-platform Docker image (amd64/arm/arm64/ppc64le/s390x)
- Health checks (readiness and liveness)
- Graceful shutdown on interrupt signals
- File watcher for secrets and configmaps
- Instrumented with Prometheus
- Tracing with Istio and Jaeger
- Structured logging with zap
- 12-factor app with viper
- Fault injection (random errors and latency)
- Helm chart
Web API:
GET /
prints runtime informationGET /version
prints podinfo version and git commit hashGET /metrics
return HTTP requests duration and Go runtime metricsGET /healthz
used by Kubernetes liveness probeGET /readyz
used by Kubernetes readiness probePOST /readyz/enable
signals the Kubernetes LB that this instance is ready to receive trafficPOST /readyz/disable
signals the Kubernetes LB to stop sending requests to this instanceGET /status/{code}
returns the status codeGET /panic
crashes the process with exit code 255POST /echo
forwards the call to the backend service and echos the posted contentGET /env
returns the environment variables as a JSON arrayGET /headers
returns a JSON with the request HTTP headersGET /delay/{seconds}
waits for the specified periodPOST /token
issues a JWT token valid for one minuteJWT=$(curl -sd 'anon' podinfo:9898/token | jq -r .token)
GET /token/validate
validates the JWT tokencurl -H "Authorization: Bearer $JWT" podinfo:9898/token/validate
GET /configs
returns a JSON with configmaps and/or secrets mounted in theconfig
volumePOST /store
writes the posted content to disk at /data/hash and returns the SHA1 hash of the contentGET /store/{hash}
returns the content of the file /data/hash if existsGET /ws/echo
echos content via websocketspodcli ws ws://localhost:9898/ws/echo
GET /chunked/{seconds}
usestransfer-encoding
typechunked
to give a partial response and then waits for the specified period