Self-documenting services: generating a microservice canvas
The microservice canvas is a great way to document a service. One drawback, however, is that like all forms of documentation, it often becomes out of date.
To solve this problem, I’ve created the Microservice Canvas Tools project.
This project keeps the canvas up to date by dynamically generating a microservice canvas for a running service using a combination of reflection/introspection and explicit metadata.
It exposes a service’s canvas via the /canvas.adoc, /canvas.html, /canvas.yml, and /canvas.json endpoints.
The project is still very much work in progress but please take a look and let me know what you think.
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