Aspen Mesh Boutique is a cloud-native microservices demo application. Aspen Mesh Boutique consists of a 10-tier microservices application. The application is a web-based e-commerce app where users can browse items, add them to the cart, and purchase them.
Aspen Mesh uses this application to demonstrate use of technologies like Kubernetes/AWS, Istio, Chaos Engineering, and OTEL. This application works on any Kubernetes cluster.
| Home Page | Checkout Screen |
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Refer to the README in the aspenmesh-demo-site-infra repository to deploy a new cluster and deploy this application.
Then you can Access the web frontend in a browser using the frontend's EXTERNAL_IP.
kubectl get service frontend-external | awk '{print $4}'
Example output - do not copy
EXTERNAL-IP
<your-ip>
Online Boutique is composed of 11 microservices written in different languages that talk to each other over gRPC. See the Development Principles doc for more information.
Find Protocol Buffers Descriptions at the ./pb directory.
| Service | Language | Description |
|---|---|---|
| frontend | Go | Exposes an HTTP server to serve the website. Does not require signup/login and generates session IDs for all users automatically. |
| cartservice | C# | Stores the items in the user's shopping cart in Redis and retrieves it. |
| productcatalogservice | Go | Provides the list of products from a JSON file and ability to search products and get individual products. |
| currencyservice | Node.js | Converts one money amount to another currency. Uses real values fetched from European Central Bank. It's the highest QPS service. |
| paymentservice | Node.js | Charges the given credit card info (mock) with the given amount and returns a transaction ID. |
| shippingservice | Go | Gives shipping cost estimates based on the shopping cart. Ships items to the given address (mock) |
| emailservice | Python | Sends users an order confirmation email (mock). |
| checkoutservice | Go | Retrieves user cart, prepares order and orchestrates the payment, shipping and the email notification. |
| recommendationservice | Python | Recommends other products based on what's given in the cart. |
| adservice | Java | Provides text ads based on given context words. |
| loadgenerator | Python/Locust | Continuously sends requests imitating realistic user shopping flows to the frontend. |