GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo
Sample cloud-first application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #508 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 18%).
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 25 days ago, with 129 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Demonstrates a cloud-native microservices e-commerce application using Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC across multiple languages.
- Provides a comprehensive, real-world example integrating Google Cloud services for modernizing enterprise applications with microservices.
- Use for learning deployment and management of microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine with service mesh and observability.
- Use for testing and benchmarking microservices communication and orchestration with gRPC and Istio in a multi-language environment.
- Use for experimenting with cloud-native patterns like service mesh, distributed tracing, and multi-service orchestration in a sample app.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Online Boutique is a cloud-first microservices demo application. The application is a web-based e-commerce app where users can browse items, add them to the cart, and purchase them.
Google uses this application to demonstrate how developers can modernize enterprise applications using Google Cloud products, including: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Service Mesh (CSM), gRPC, Cloud Operations, Spanner, Memorystore, AlloyDB, and Gemini. This application works on any Kubernetes cluster.
If you’re using this demo, please ★Star this repository to show your interest!
Note to Googlers: Please fill out the form at go/microservices-demo.
Online Boutique is composed of 11 microservices written in different languages that talk to each other over gRPC.
Find Protocol Buffers Descriptions at the
./protosdirectory.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+447 stars over 83 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +31 on Jul 28.
Forks
10.6K+340
Open issues
88+21
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| GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo | 21.1K | +0 | 75 | 25 days ago |
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| 2FastLabs/agent-squad | 7.8K | +0 | 75 | 18 days ago |
| Category median | 10.3K | +0 | 75 | — |
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