doytsujin / app-mesh

A high available light weight cloud native microservice application management platform similar with Kubernetes

App Mesh

App Mesh is a Multi Tenant, Cloud Native, Micro Service application management platform, used to host, schedule and monitor applications. Each app can be a specific micro service for service discover or normal app with replication, the app-mesh will guarantee all defined applications running on-time with defined behavior and resources requests. The platform can run as standalone or cluster mode, provide REST APIs, command-line and web-ui.

App Mesh is similar with Kubernetes but much light weight, support both container app and native app.

Features

Scope	Behavior
Support applications	Long running Short running Periodic long running Cron schedule
Application attributes	Extra init and cleanup commands Available time range in a day and more rich time options Environment variables Health check command to identify app health Pipe input string data to pass data to application Resource (memory & CPU) limitation (cgroup on Linux) to request resources Support Docker container app
Security	⚡️ JWT authentication for CLI and REST interface ⚡️ Role based permission control SSL support (ECDH and secure ciphers) for REST http connection Multi-tenant support
Cloud native	⚡️ Prometheus Exporter (build-in) ⚡️ Grafana Loki REST service with IPv4/IPv6 support
Micro service application	⚡️ Consul micro-service cluster management
Extra Features	Collect host/app resource usage Remote run shell commands Download/Upload files interface Hot-update support systemctl reload appmesh Bash completion Reverse proxy Web GUI
Platform support	X86_64 ARM32 ARM64
SDK	Python Golang

Getting started

The Installation doc introduce how to install App Mesh via docker-compose or native way and setup App Mesh cluster.

Documentation

• Read the Docs
• REST API
• Command lines
• Security

Comparison

Standalone mode

Feature	App Mesh	Supervisor	crontab
Accuracy	Seconds	Seconds	Minutes
Language	C++11	Python	C
Web GUI	√	√
Command lines	√	√	√
Cron expression	√		√
SDK	√
Manage daemon process			√
Manage docker app	√
Start check (avoid leak)	√	√
Session login
Manage stdout/stderr	√	√
Health check	√
Rich control options	√
Authentication	√	√
Multi-tenant	√		√

Cluster mode

Feature	App Mesh	Kubernetes
Easy deploy	√
More features		√
Non-container app	√
Service expose	√	√
Scheduler	√	√
Definition file	JSON	YAML
GUI	√	√
Virtual Network		√
Monitor tools	√	√

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Library dependency

• ACE
• Microsoft/cpprestsdk
• boost
• log4cpp
• Thalhammer/jwt-cpp
• jupp0r/prometheus-cpp
• zemasoft/wildcards
• Crypto++
• mariusbancila/croncpp