#Autodiscovery module for microservices. This Node module encapsulates a set of useful functions to discover nearby services in Openshift 3.x / Kubernetes, you just need to remember the service name to retrieve connectivity information.

Features

• Discovery through environment variables.
  • Look for surrounding services looking at environment variables.
• DNS Lookup
  • You can discover services that are in your same network/project in OSE3/Kubernetes.
• DNS SRV (Experimental)
  • Looking for services using this more robust DNS specification.
• Whoami
  • Get information on how to connect to your own service, useful if you want to send this info to other services.

Demo

• Service discovery example.

API

• discover.searchInEnvVars
  • it look for environment variables of other containers shared with your service.

  let discover = require('discovery');

  //{"service": "172.30.228.0","port": "8080" }
  discover.searchInEnvVars('service name');

• discover.searchInDNS

• if for some reason environment variables are not shared, this method allow you to lookup the service name in the DNS.
• return an object with IP address and port.

  // returns the IP of the cluster.
discover.searchInDNS('service name'); //"172.30.228.0"

• discover.searchInDNSSRV

• You can retrieve address and port from a DNS with SRV record support.

//returns the IP address.
// {  "service": "172.30.228.0","port": "8080" },
discover.searchInDNSSRV('service name');  

• discover.whoami

• the connection details for your own service, can be handy to report to some orchestrator.

//return.
discover.whoami();
                        //  "name": "discovery",
                        //  "info": {
                        //    "service": "172.30.234.24",
                        //    "port": "8080"
                        //  }
}

More info

• Openshift 3.x
• Kubernetes