Online Boutique is composed of 11 microservices written in different languages that talk to each other over gRPC.
Find Protocol Buffers Descriptions at the ./protos directory.
| Service | Language | Description |
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| 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. |
| Home Page | Checkout Screen |
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Ensure you have the following requirements:
- Any kubernetes clusters ( Kubeadm , EKS , GKE , AKS , K3S )
- Shell environment with
helm,git, andkubectl.
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Clone the latest major version.
git clone --depth 1 --branch v0 https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo.git cd microservices-demo/ -
Deploy Online Boutique to the cluster.
kubectl apply -f ./release/kubernetes-manifests.yaml
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Wait for the pods to be ready.
kubectl get pods
After a few minutes, you should see the Pods in a
Runningstate:NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE adservice-76bdd69666-ckc5j 1/1 Running 0 2m58s cartservice-66d497c6b7-dp5jr 1/1 Running 0 2m59s checkoutservice-666c784bd6-4jd22 1/1 Running 0 3m1s currencyservice-5d5d496984-4jmd7 1/1 Running 0 2m59s emailservice-667457d9d6-75jcq 1/1 Running 0 3m2s frontend-6b8d69b9fb-wjqdg 1/1 Running 0 3m1s loadgenerator-665b5cd444-gwqdq 1/1 Running 0 3m paymentservice-68596d6dd6-bf6bv 1/1 Running 0 3m productcatalogservice-557d474574-888kr 1/1 Running 0 3m recommendationservice-69c56b74d4-7z8r5 1/1 Running 0 3m1s redis-cart-5f59546cdd-5jnqf 1/1 Running 0 2m58s shippingservice-6ccc89f8fd-v686r 1/1 Running 0 2m58s -
Access the web frontend in a browser using the frontend's external IP.
kubectl get service frontend-external | awk '{print $4}'
Visit
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Congrats! You've deployed the default Online Boutique. To deploy a different variation of Online Boutique (e.g., with Google Cloud Operations tracing, Istio, etc.), see Deploy Online Boutique variations with Kustomize.
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Once you are done with it, delete the GKE cluster.
gcloud container clusters delete online-boutique \ --project=${PROJECT_ID} --region=${REGION}
Deleting the cluster may take a few minutes.
- Terraform: See these instructions to learn how to deploy Online Boutique using Terraform.
- Istio / Cloud Service Mesh: See these instructions to deploy Online Boutique alongside an Istio-backed service mesh.
- Non-GKE clusters (Minikube, Kind, etc): See the Development guide to learn how you can deploy Online Boutique on non-GKE clusters.
- AI assistant using Gemini: See these instructions to deploy a Gemini-powered AI assistant that suggests products to purchase based on an image.
- And more: The
/kustomizedirectory contains instructions for customizing the deployment of Online Boutique with other variations.
- Development to learn how to run and develop this app locally.
- Security hardening of the OnlineBoutique sample apps with the Docker Hardened Images (DHI)
- alpine, distroless or scratch?
- Platform Engineering in action: Deploy the Online Boutique sample apps with Score and Humanitec
- The new Kubernetes Gateway API with Istio and Anthos Service Mesh (ASM)
- Use Azure Redis Cache with the Online Boutique sample on AKS
- Sail Sharp, 8 tips to optimize and secure your .NET containers for Kubernetes
- Deploy multi-region application with Anthos and Google cloud Spanner
- Use Google Cloud Memorystore (Redis) with the Online Boutique sample on GKE
- Use Helm to simplify the deployment of Online Boutique, with a Service Mesh, GitOps, and more!
- How to reduce microservices complexity with Apigee and Anthos Service Mesh
- gRPC health probes with Kubernetes 1.24+
- Use Google Cloud Spanner with the Online Boutique sample
- Seamlessly encrypt traffic from any apps in your Mesh to Memorystore (redis)
- Strengthen your app's security with Cloud Service Mesh and Anthos Config Management
- From edge to mesh: Exposing service mesh applications through GKE Ingress
- Take the first step toward SRE with Cloud Operations Sandbox
- Deploying the Online Boutique sample application on Cloud Service Mesh
- Anthos Service Mesh Workshop: Lab Guide
- KubeCon EU 2019 - Reinventing Networking: A Deep Dive into Istio's Multicluster Gateways - Steve Dake, Independent
- Google Cloud Next'18 SF
- Day 1 Keynote showing GKE On-Prem
- Day 3 Keynote showing Stackdriver APM (Tracing, Code Search, Profiler, Google Cloud Build)
- Introduction to Service Management with Istio
- Google Cloud Next'18 London – Keynote showing Stackdriver Incident Response Management
- Microservices demo showcasing Go Micro


