k8s-podinfo

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
• Prometheus instrumentation (RED metrics)
• Dependency management with golang/dep
• Structured logging with zerolog
• Error handling with pkg/errors
• Helm chart

Web API:

• GET / prints runtime information, environment variables, labels and annotations
• GET /version prints podinfo version and git commit hash
• GET /metrics http requests duration and Go runtime metrics
• GET /healthz used by Kubernetes liveness probe
• GET /readyz used by Kubernetes readiness probe
• POST /readyz/enable signals the Kubernetes LB that this instance is ready to receive traffic
• POST /readyz/disable signals the Kubernetes LB to stop sending requests to this instance
• GET /error returns code 500 and logs the error
• GET /panic crashes the process with exit code 255
• POST /echo echos the posted content, logs the SHA1 hash of the content
• GET /echoheaders prints the request HTTP headers
• POST /job long running job, json body: {"wait":2}
• POST /write writes the posted content to disk at /data/hash and returns the SHA1 hash of the content
• POST /read receives a SHA1 hash and returns the content of the file /data/hash if exists
• POST /backend forwards the call to the backend service on http://backend-podinfo:9898/echo

Guides

• Deploy and upgrade with Helm
• Horizontal Pod Auto-scaling
• Monitoring and alerting with Prometheus
• StatefulSets with local persistent volumes
• Expose Kubernetes services over HTTPS with Ngrok
• A/B Testing with Ambassador API Gateway
• Canary Deployments with Istio