Registry

The registry is responsible for service discovery in Go Micro. It allows services to register themselves and discover other services.

Features

• Service registration and deregistration
• Service lookup
• Watch for changes

Implementations

Go Micro supports multiple registry backends, including:

• MDNS (default)
• Consul
• Etcd
• NATS

You can configure the registry when initializing your service.

Plugins Location

Registry plugins live in this repository under go-micro.dev/v5/registry/<plugin> (e.g., consul, etcd, nats). Import the desired package and pass it via micro.Registry(...).

Configure via environment

MICRO_REGISTRY=etcd MICRO_REGISTRY_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1:2379 micro server

Common variables:

• MICRO_REGISTRY: selects the registry implementation (mdns, consul, etcd, nats).
• MICRO_REGISTRY_ADDRESS: comma-separated list of registry addresses.

Backend-specific variables:

• Etcd: ETCD_USERNAME, ETCD_PASSWORD for authenticated clusters.

Example Usage

Here’s how to use a custom registry (e.g., Consul) in your Go Micro service:

package main

import (
    "go-micro.dev/v5"
    "go-micro.dev/v5/registry/consul"
)

func main() {
    reg := consul.NewRegistry()
    service := micro.NewService(
        micro.Registry(reg),
    )
    service.Init()
    service.Run()
}