Traditional deployment architecture based on Zookeeper and Nacos for deploying Dubbo applications in a virtual machine environment

The following diagram illustrates a typical Dubbo microservice deployment architecture using Nacos and Zookeeper as the registration center.

Install Nacos

Please refer to the following documentation for how to install Nacos locally.

Deploy Application

We will continue to use the project in Quick Start as an example to demonstrate the detailed steps for application packaging and deployment.

Clone the sample project locally:

$ git clone -b main --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/dubbo-samples

Switch to the sample directory:

$ cd dubbo-samples/11-quickstart

Here are two packaging and deployment modes:

Method 1: Local Process

Local packaging process:

$ mvn clean package

Start the Dubbo process:

$ java -jar ./quickstart-service/target/quickstart-service-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Tip

To ensure the program runs correctly, please make sure the registration center address in the application.yml file is correctly pointing to the desired registration center.

Method 2: Docker Container

$ docker build -f ./Dockerfile -t quickstart

$ docker run quickstart -p port1:port2
# Some port or connection details to the registration center need to be clarified

Tip

In a Docker container environment, special attention is needed for the addresses used for network communication between different containers. Therefore, you may need to set the address that the Dubbo process listens to or registers with the registration center. Please refer to the following link for more information.

See dubbo sets host through environment variables

Some deployment scenarios require dynamically specifying the service registration address, such as specifying the host machine IP to enable external communication in the Docker bridge network mode. Dubbo provides two pairs of system properties for the startup phase to set the external communication IP and port addresses.

DUBBO_IP_TO_REGISTRY: IP address registered with the registration center
DUBBO_PORT_TO_REGISTRY: Port registered with the registration center
DUBBO_IP_TO_BIND: IP address to listen on
DUBBO_PORT_TO_BIND: Port to listen on

The above four configuration items are optional. If not configured, dubbo will automatically obtain IP and port. Please flexibly choose configurations based on specific deployment scenarios. Dubbo supports multiple protocols, and if an application exposes multiple different protocol services at the same time and needs to specify IP or port for each service separately, please prefix the above properties with the protocol prefix. For example:

HESSIAN_DUBBO_PORT_TO_BIND: Port bound for the hessian protocol
DUBBO_DUBBO_PORT_TO_BIND: Port bound for the dubbo protocol
HESSIAN_DUBBO_IP_TO_REGISTRY: IP for registering the hessian protocol
DUBBO_DUBBO_IP_TO_REGISTRY: IP for registering the dubbo protocol

PORT_TO_REGISTRY or IP_TO_REGISTRY will not be used as the default PORT_TO_BIND or IP_TO_BIND, but the reverse is true. For example:

Setting PORT_TO_REGISTRY=20881 and IP_TO_REGISTRY=30.5.97.6 does not affect PORT_TO_BIND and IP_TO_BIND.
Setting PORT_TO_BIND=20881 and IP_TO_BIND=30.5.97.6, then by default PORT_TO_REGISTRY=20881 and IP_TO_REGISTRY=30.5.97.6.

Check Deployment Status

Install and run dubbo-control-plane to check the local service deployment status:

Download the installation package

$ curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/dubbo-kubernetes/master/release/downloadDubbo.sh | sh -
$ cd dubbo-$version/bin

Run the following command to start the dubbo-control-plane process
```
$ ./dubbo-cp run
```

Tip

To ensure dubbo-control-plane runs properly, please modify conf/dubbo-cp.yml to ensure it points to your desired registration center.

Visit http://xxx to view service deployment details.

Graceful Online and Offline

In the case of using a traditional registration center, we need to control the timing of when instances are published to the registration center and when instances are removed from the registration center to achieve a graceful online and offline:

In the online phase, control the timing of instance registration to the registration center through the delayed release mechanism and ensure that traffic is gradually forwarded to the new nodes through enabling consumer preheating.
In the offline phase, configure prestop to ensure that instance registration information is first removed from the registration center, and then enter the process of destruction.

Before going offline, it is recommended to call the following http port to remove the instance from the registration center first, then attempt to stop the process.

$ curl http://offline
$ sleep 10
$ kill dubbo-pid

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