linking two applications together?

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A tool for developers to create cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.

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linking two applications together? #363

Open bacongobbler opened 7 years ago

bacongobbler commented 7 years ago

Right now it's possible to link two applications together if

application A defines a service with a hardcoded name
application B consumes that service

But what if we could make that link implicit by creating those services for the user e.g. draft connect --link=application-b[:alias], similar to docker run --link?

michelleN commented 7 years ago

I was hoping we didn't have to specify --link in this feature. draft connect [app1] [app2] feels intuitive. This should give us a local tunnel for each application and create a Kubernetes service for these two apps to speak to each other. Thoughts?

Update: currently spiking this feature and we may just want to have a discussion around this after a PoC demo.

bacongobbler commented 7 years ago

Indeed that does looks like a good UI, though I could imagine we would want to extend the usage to draft connect [myapp] [appnames...] so that a user can specify a number of deployed applications, all of which will be linked to app1 (e.g. I want a single microservice connected to all of my other microservices so it works).

a PoC would be great :)

squillace commented 6 years ago

I'll tackle this issue with everyone. :-) Formulating how this might work properly.