Prometheus and Grafana

Release notes

• Integration with Prometheus to scrape metrics from the microservices, databases and broker
• Integration with Grafana to display metrics scraped by Prometheus
• Addition of default dashboards in Grafana
• Change target names in Docker and Docker Compose files to be all lower case (docker cli issue #1414 )

update to micro v3.1.1

Release notes

• Update to micro v3.1.1 which includes among other things micro update instead of having to do micro kill and micro start every time.
• Update to Go 1.16
• Removed old dependency on jackc/pgx from audit service and consolidated on jackc/pgx/v4 for all services
• App is now tested on Go 1.16, minikube v 1.18 and Kubernetes v1.20.2
• Reduced cpu request for Vault injected init containers when running app integrated with Vault in K8s

Svelte front end, Kubernetes and optional Vault integration

Release notes

I have not published a new release for a while, so figured it is a good time for an update. Since release 0.4.0 (several months ago) and in descending order of implementation from newest to oldest:

• Optional integration with Hashicorp Vault when running in Kubernetes for static credentials management (Feb 2021). See ./vault for details
• Migration from go-Micro to Micro
• Setup application to run in Kubernetes
• Creation of Svelte based front end