Set dependent Workloads

Describes how to set Workloads that are dependent on additional resources.

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The Score Specification has a resources section that is used to describe Workload’s dependencies. This mechanism can be used to spin-up multiservice setups.

Example with score-compose

The service-a.yaml Score file below describes a service that has two dependencies: service-b (another workload) and a PostgreSQL database:

apiVersion: score.dev/v1b1

metadata:
  name: service-a

containers:
  service-a:
    image: busybox
    command: ["/bin/sh"]
    args: ["-c", "while true; do echo service-a: Hello $${FRIEND}! Connecting to ${CONNECTION_STRING}...; sleep 10; done"]
    variables:
      FRIEND: ${resources.env.NAME}
      CONNECTION_STRING: postgresql://${resources.db.user}:${resources.db.password}@${resources.db.host}:${resources.db.port}/${resources.db.name}

resources:
  env:
    type: environment
    properties:
      NAME:
        type: string
        default: World
  db:
    type: postgres
    properties:
      host:
        default: localhost
      port:
        default: 5432
      name:
        default: postgres
      user:
        secret: true
      password:
        secret: true
  service-b:
    type: workload

The second workload is described in the service-b.yaml file and doesn’t have additional dependencies.

apiVersion: score.dev/v1b1

metadata:
  name: service-b

containers:
  service-b:
    image: busybox
    command: ["/bin/sh"]
    args: ["-c", "while true; do echo service-b: Hello $${FRIEND}!; sleep 5; done"]
    variables:
      FRIEND: ${resources.env.NAME}

resources:
  env:
    type: environment
    properties:
      NAME:
        type: string
        default: World

To prepare the Docker Compose configuration files, convert both Score files with score-compose.

score-compose run -f ./service-b.yaml -o ./service-b.compose.yaml
score-compose run -f ./service-a.yaml -o ./service-a.compose.yaml --env-file ./.env

The resulting output file service-a.compose.yaml would include two dependencies on compose services db and service-b. Both should be up and running before service-a could start.

services:
  service-a:
    command:
      - -c
      - 'while true; do echo service-a: Hello $${FRIEND}! Connecting to ${CONNECTION_STRING}...; sleep 10; done'
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_started
      service-b:
        condition: service_started
    entrypoint:
      - /bin/sh
    environment:
      CONNECTION_STRING: postgresql://${DB_USER}:${DB_PASSWORD}@${DB_HOST-localhost}:${DB_PORT-5432}/${DB_NAME-postgres}
      NAME: ${NAME-World}
    image: busybox

Ensure there is a Docker Compose database service definition. A common place to store non-Score defined configuration and resources is a root compose.yaml file.

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:alpine
    restart: always
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=${DB_USER}
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
    ports:
      - '5432:5432'
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/postgresql/data

volumes:
  db:
    driver: local

Ensure the .env file has all the proper environment variables set.

NAME=World
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=5432
DB_NAME=postgres
DB_USER=postgres
DB_PASSWORD=postgres

Now, the files can be combined to build the application with docker compose.

docker compose -f ./compose.yaml \
  -f ./service-a.yaml \
  -f ./service-b.yaml \
  --env-file ./.env up

The following is the output of the previous command.

[+] Running 4/4
 ⠿ Network compose_default        Created                                                                                                                          0.0s
 ⠿ Container compose-db-1         Created                                                                                                                          0.1s
 ⠿ Container compose-service-b-1  Recreated                                                                                                                        0.1s
 ⠿ Container compose-service-a-1  Recreated                                                                                                                        0.1s
Attaching to compose-db-1, compose-service-a-1, compose-service-b-1
compose-service-b-1  | service-b: Hello World!
compose-db-1         | 
compose-db-1         | PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization
compose-db-1         | 
compose-db-1         | 2022-10-25 04:53:58.528 UTC [1] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 15.0 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 11.2.1_git20220219) 11.2.1 20220219, 64-bit
compose-db-1         | 2022-10-25 04:53:58.528 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
compose-db-1         | 2022-10-25 04:53:58.528 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
compose-db-1         | 2022-10-25 04:53:58.540 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
compose-db-1         | 2022-10-25 04:53:58.551 UTC [23] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2022-10-25 04:52:28 UTC
compose-db-1         | 2022-10-25 04:53:58.562 UTC [1] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
compose-service-a-1  | service-a: Hello World! Connecting to postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres...
compose-service-b-1  | service-b: Hello World!
compose-service-b-1  | service-b: Hello World!
compose-service-a-1  | service-a: Hello World! Connecting to postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres...
compose-service-b-1  | service-b: Hello World!

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