Micro - a microservices ecosystem

The goal of Micro is to provide an ecosystem of tools and services for microservice development and management. At the core, the toolkit is simple and accessible enough that anyone can easily get started writing microservices. As you scale to hundreds of services, micro will provide the fundamental tools required to manage a microservice environment.

Checkout the roadmap to see where it's all going.

Overview

Below are the libraries and services that encompass the micro ecosystem.

Micro

Micro itself is the overarching toolkit and ecosystem

Features:

• API
• CLI
• Web UI
• Sidecar - provides all features over go-micro through a http interface

Go Micro

Go-micro is a pluggable Go framework for writing RPC based microservices. Go micro can be used standalone but fits into the bigger Micro ecosystem.

Features:

• Service discovery
• Client/Server
• Pub/Sub
• Codecs

Go Platform

Go-platform provides higher level libraries and services that can be integrated into a go-micro service. Things like tracing, monitoring, dynamic configuration, etc. Again, pluggable like go-micro.

Features:

• Discovery
• Tracing
• Monitoring
• Logging
• Dynamic Config
• Key Value
• Database
• Instrumentation
• Authentication

Go Plugins

Go-plugins provides a place for the community to provide their implementations of the interfaces. By default Micro will only support 1 or 2 implementations of each interface. Registries built on top of kubernetes, zookeeper, etc. Transport using http2, broker using kafka, etc.