Vacuum is a REST API which allows you to understand the dependency graph of your microservices architecture.
It is based on Swagger.io, you can just submit the URL of your swagger documentation and Vacuum will parse it and create the Service-Endpoint graph as you can see in the image bellow.
The green node is the service host name, captured from Swagger document, it represents the main node and is labeled as Service.
Blue nodes are the service paths, also captured from Swagger spec, the nodes labeled as Endpoint and have the propety path
which descrives its path on that service. Basically, the graph is composed by host names and paths.
There is only one relationship between Service and Endpoint which is identified by the label EXPOSES. It represents all
endpoints that are exposed for a given service swagger spec.
Once you have created the Service-Endpoint graph you can adjust your microservices to send a request to Vacuum API.
The request needs to inform the details about the call that your service A is sending to your service B. After that, Vacuum will create relationships between both services considering the path and http method in use.
The relatioship between the Service rely on a request event with these details:
- origin_host: The service A host name which is firing the call to service B
- method: The HTTP method
- target_host: The service B host name
- target_path: The endpoint that service A is calling from service B
POST <host>:8090/v1/microservices -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"swagger_url": "<the_swagger_url>"}'
POST <host>:8090/v1/requests -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"origin_host": "api.uber.com", "method": "POST", "target_host": "petstore.swagger.io", "target_path": "/v2/user/login"}'
POST <host>:8090/v1/requests -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"origin_host": "api.uber.com", "method": "DELETE", "target_host": "petstore.swagger.io", "target_path": "/v2/pet"}'
Under scripts folder you will find the script fetch_db.sh, it will provide some sample data to populate Neo4J.
It creates two graphs Service-Endpoint and add relatioships (GET,POST,DELETE,CALL) for Service nodes which represents call events between them.
After you have executed the script you can open the Neo4J dashboard http://localhost:7474/browser/
and execute this Cypher query to see all the entire graph: MATCH p=()-[r:EXPOSES]->() RETURN p
GET <host>:8090/v1/microservices?path_term=user -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
GET <host>:8090/v1/microservices/b36e8649-e82e-4795-8ef6-c2d8eb3e6620/dependants -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
The service id is generate and returned when you send a POST /v1/microservices with swagger_url as body param or you can checkout the uuid param on Neo4j dashboard if you have executed the fetch_db.sh.
- New queries
- Document Vacuum API with Swagger.io
- Authentication (API, Neo4J)
- Unit & IT Tests
- Improve DDD
- Better DOCs