davidburet/gse repository overview

⁠Description

GSE is a small standalone web app designed to help debugging the environment of orchestred containers, through a very small go app.

It can be be easly packaged into a < 3 MB docker image that will run with less than 20 Mo of ram, making it easly to deploy.

More details (all parameters) are available in the README.adoc⁠ (the README.md is needed here since docker hub does not parse asciidoc)

⁠endpoints

It offers 4 endpoints

⁠display env & http request received

• usefull to understand what env and request your containers receive

⁠display its version in a single line of text

• usefull to display version while testing updates deployments (rolling, blue/green, canary)
• a "stamp" can be added to the version through env variables.

⁠healthcheck

• can also be turned in ok or ko state through a simple http call
• usefull to play with your container orchestrator (kubernetes, nomad…​) routing system.

⁠logger

• outputs what you want on the log output
• usefull to test your that log gathering system, pattern matching alarms