"User Management" gRPC Microservice Example

Prerequisites

• required Go 1.19, and

Tools

Install the following tools:

• required Protocol Buffers Compiler, protoc (3.21.9, version to date):
  • Homebrew: brew install protobuf
  • Alpine 3.15: apk add protobuf-dev protobuf
  • Ubuntu 21.10: apt-get install protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev
• required buf CLI for linting and compiling:
  • go install github.com/bufbuild/buf/cmd/buf@v1.9.0
• required Protocol Buffer Plugin for Go:
  • go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.28.1
• required gRPC Plugin for Go:
  • go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@v1.2.0
• recommended Code Formatting, clang-format, you can use find . -name '*.proto' | xargs clang-format -i
  • Homebrew: brew install clang-format (14.0.6, version to date):
  • Alpine 3.15: apk add clang-extra-tools
  • Ubuntu 21.10: apt-get install clang-format
• recommended gRPC Health Check tester using grpc-health-probe:
  • go install github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-health-probe@v0.4.14