example-apps-overview.md

Example Apps Overview

This doc provides an overview of the example apps provided and the uses cases they provide.

Use Cases

• general network debugging
• use container-to-container networking
• use container-to-container networking with service discovery
• use Eureka for service discovery
• use an a8registry

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Use case: you want an app to do network debugging

App: Proxy

Description: Proxy has endpoints for using dig and ping, for showing stats, uploading and downloading an arbitrary number of bytes, and more. It is a good app for general debugging purposes.

Use case: you want to try out container-to-container networking

App: Cats and Dogs

Description: This example demonstrates container-to-container networking via HTTP and UDP between a frontend and backend app.

Use case: you want to try out container-to-container networking with service discovery

App: Cats and Dogs with Service Discovery

Description: This example demonstrates container-to-container networking via HTTP and UDP between a frontend and backend app with service discovery.

Use case: you want to use an a8registry

App: tick

Description: This is a simple app that registers itself with an a8registry on a regular interval.

Use case: you want to test an invalid HTTP response

App: raw-response

Description: This is a simple app is designed to make writing arbitrary HTTP responses out from a CloudFoundry app, bypassing any of Golang's built-in net/http or net/httputil behaviors.