Octopus is an open-source microservice architecture tool for visualizing dependency graph. It's simple and easy to use.
The microservice architecture has a lot of advantages but there are a lot disadvantages too. One of the main problem is that it can easily get out of control because of the quantity of the moving pieces. Especially if you just mindlessly jumped into the microservices hype.
Octopus aims to solve some of that issue by providing an overall dependency graph between microservices.
- you need it to paint the big picture. Don’t underestimate the value of seeing the big picture because you definitely need it even if you are not doing the architecture on daily basis
- you also need this to do some impact analysis
docker pull aint/octopus:latest
docker run -it -p 5000:5000 aint/octopus:latest
Octopus server should now be running at http://localhost:5000
Send some POST request with curl
curl -X POST \
http://localhost:5000/ \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"eventType": "CREATE",
"serviceName": "service-1",
"serviceType": "svc",
"serviceMetadata": "Java 8, Spring 5.0",
"dependencies": {
"SERVICES": [
"service-2", "service-3",
],
"DATABASES": [ "MySQL" ],
"LAMBDAS": [],
"THIRD_PARTY": []
}
}'
Check out http://localhost:5000 to see a result.
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