MVP

The MVP is Micro as a Service.

Overview

The Micro Platform is a cloud native platform built for developers. Its a fully managed Micro built on k8s in the cloud. For MVP the interaction is primarily CLI driven with only a minimal web presence for taking payments.

CLI commands

The CLI commands supported in the MVP are defined in cli.md.

User signup / onboarding

See user journey

Other

User’s only have 1 namespace for MVP plus access to the micro namespace where the core services run. No cross talk across namespaces.

All users are paid “developer” accounts and charged $35/month.

Non functional requirements

Stores

Which stores are supported? The default store (as configured via MICRO_STORE) is service which means all store requests will hit our m3o store service which is a distributed, persistent store backed by cockroach.

If users deviate from the model of using DefaultStore they might be running

• Memory - which should work as expected
• File - :warning: this essentially only lasts the lifetime of the process since m3o is Kubernetes based so will not work as expected :warning:

In case of any support queries we should be pushing users to the DefaultStore model.

:question: Questions Data durability guarantees? Do we do backups? No guarantees and no backups

Encryption at rest? No encryption

Scalability

Manual scaling up of compute/memory as required, by a micro admin.

SLA

GMT business hours support via slack. Will have a slack channel dedicated to this.

Security

mTLS for all communication within m3o.

Security sense check. No pen testing but ensure

• adequate auth on things like config etc so users can’t see things they shouldn’t (e.g. dump all our secret keys)
• isolation of core infra like Cockroach and etcd. Only accessed via relevant services.

Config

Config should only be readable by something with an account for that namespace. For now it is OK for something to have namespace wide access but eventually config will be scoped per service with only accounts with admin role being able to view everything.

:warning: Out of scope

• encrypted config