GRPC Remote Procedure Call (gRPC)

Wikipedia: gRPC (Aug 2016) (Google)

gRPC uses Protocol Buffers to encode data.

gRPC liveness probe example

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: etcd-with-grpc
spec:
  containers:
  - name: etcd
    image: registry.k8s.io/etcd:3.5.1-0
    command: [ "/usr/local/bin/etcd", "--data-dir",  "/var/lib/etcd", "--listen-client-urls", "http://0.0.0.0:2379", "--advertise-client-urls", "http://127.0.0.1:2379", "--log-level", "debug"]
    ports:
    - containerPort: 2379
    livenessProbe:
      grpc:
        port: 2379
      initialDelaySeconds: 10

Related terms

• gRPC Transcoding
• CoreDNS
• Websockets (2011)
• aws_lb_target_group
• Not supported in Amazon CloudFront distribution but supported in AWS Global Accelerator
• argocd login --grpc-web
• REST
• TLS

See also

• GRPC Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), grpcurl, io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException
• RPC, rpcbind, rpcinfo, rpc.statd, WS-RPC, HTTP-RPC, OpenRPC
• HTTP, HTTP client, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, HSTS CSR, TLS, SSL, openSSL, WebSockets, WebRTC, ssl_certificate QUIC, HPKP, CT, List of HTTP status codes, URL redirection, Content-type:, Webhook, HTTP headers, --insecure, Axios HTTP client, HTTP cookies, HTTP ETag, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, HTTP security, host verification, HTTP request methods