Distributed Services with Go

by Travis Jeffery

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Who This Book Is For
• What’s in This Book
• Online Resources
• Part I. Get Started

1. Let’s Go

• How JSON over HTTP Services Fits into Distributed Systems
• Set Up the Project
• Build a Commit Log Prototype
• Build a JSON over HTTP Server
• Run Your Server
• Test Your API
• What You Learned

2. Structure Data with Protocol Buffers

• Why Use Protocol Buffers?
• Install the Protocol Buffer Compiler
• Define Your Domain Types as Protocol Buffers
• Compile Protocol Buffers
• Work with the Generated Code
• What You Learned

3. Write a Log Package

• The Log Is a Powerful Tool
• How Logs Work
• Build a Log
• What You Learned
• Part II. Network

4. Serve Requests with gRPC

• What Is gRPC?
• Goals When Building a Service
• Define a gRPC Service
• Compile with the gRPC Plugin
• Implement a gRPC Server
• Register Your Server
• Test a gRPC Server and Client
• What You Learned

5. Secure Your Services

• Secure Services in Three Steps
• Authenticate the Server with TLS
• Authenticate the Client with Mutual TLS Authentication
• Authorize with Access Control Lists
• What You Learned

6. Observe Your Systems

• Three Types of Telemetry Data
• Make Your Service Observable
• What You Learned
• Part III. Distribute

7. Server-to-Server Service Discovery

• Why Use Service Discovery?
• Embed Service Discovery
• Discover Services with Serf
• Request Discovered Services and Replicate Logs
• Test Discovery and the Service End-to-End
• What You Learned

8. Coordinate Your Services with Consensus

• What Is Raft and How Does It Work?
• Implement Raft in Our Service
• Multiplex to Run Multiple Services on One Port
• What You Learned

9. Discover Servers and Load Balance from the Client

• Three Load-Balancing Strategies
• Load Balance on the Client in gRPC
• Make Servers Discoverable
• Resolve the Servers
• Route and Balance Requests with Pickers
• Test Discovery and Balancing End-to-End
• What You Learned
• Part IV. Deploy

10. Deploy Applications with Kubernetes Locally

• What Is Kubernetes?
• Install kubectl
• Use Kind for Local Development and Continuous Integration
• Write an Agent Command-Line Interface
• Build Your Docker Image
• Configure and Deploy Your Service with Helm
• Advertise Raft on the Fully Qualified Domain Name
• What You Learned

11. Deploy Applications with Kubernetes to the Cloud

• Create a Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster
• Create Custom Controllers with Metacontroller
• Deploy to the Internet
• What You Learned

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