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Mu

Mu is a framework and toolset for creating reusable stacks of services.

If you are learning about Mu for the first time, please see the overview document.

Architecture

Architecture

Prerequisites

Mu is written in Go and uses Glide for dependency management. They must be installed:

If you wish to use the optional lint make target, you'll also need to install Golint:

  • go get -u github.com/golang/lint/golint

Building and Testing

To build Mu, first clone it into a standard Go workspace:

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo
$ git clone git@github.com:marapongo/mu $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo/mu

A good default value for GOPATH is ~/go.

Mu needs to know where to look for its runtime, library, etc. By default, it will look in /usr/local/mu, however you can override this with the MUPATH variable. Normally it's easiest just to create a symlink:

$ ln -s $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo/mu /usr/local/mu

There is one additional build-time dependency, golint, which can be installed using:

$ go get -u github.com/golang/lint/golint

And placed on your path by:

$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

At this point you should be able to build and run tests from the root directory:

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/marapongo/mu
$ glide update
$ make

This installs the mu binary into $GOPATH/bin, which may now be run provided make exited successfully.

Compilers

The Mu compilers are built and tested independently from the Mu tool and runtime written in Go. Please see the respective pages for details on this process for each compiler:

Debugging

The Mu tools have extensive logging built in. In fact, we encourage liberal logging in new code, and addding new logging when debugging problems. This helps to ensure future debugging endeavors benefit from your sleuthing.

All logging is done using Google's Glog library. It is relatively barebones, and adds basic leveled logging, stack dumping, and other capabilities beyond what Go's built-in logging routines offer.

The Mu command line has two flags that control this logging and that can come in handy when debugging problems. The --logtostderr flag spews directly to stderr, rather than the default of logging to files in your temp directory. And the --verbose=n flag (-v=n for short) sets the logging level to n. Anything greater than 3 is reserved for debug-level logging, greater than 5 is going to be quite verbose, and anything beyond 7 is extremely noisy.

For example, the command

$ mu compile blueprint.yaml --logtostderr -v=5

is a pretty standard starting point during debugging that will show a fairly comprehensive trace log of a compilation.