Service-to-service communication

How to contribute

• Read the contribution guidelines

Development setup

1. Run setup.sh to install dependencies.
2. ???
3. Profit!

Usage

python node_api.py [-p [Internal port used by the nodes] -b [Known bootstrap IP] [Known bootstrap port]]

Each node runs a HTTP API on port 9001. This API can be used to register/unregister services and get the IP of an abitary service.

How to initilze the node and get an IP for another service.

1. Start the API using: python node_api.py
2. Register your service by POSTing to http://127.0.0.1:9001/register with the following payload: {"service_name": "<YOUR SERVICE NAME HERE>"}.
3. Obtain an IP to the service you want to connect to by submitting a GET request to http:/127.0.0.1:9001/<service_name>. This will return a single string containing the IP to an instance of the service.