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Essentials
Please read through this to have a better understanding of the nuances that take place when executing commands which we will cover in the upcoming pages.
The order in which you create graphs does not matter. You can either create subgraphs first or federated graphs. Depending on the labels the appropriate subgraphs will be taken into account for composing your federated graphs.
Labels are a
key=value pair separated by a = sign. Ex: team=A env=prodYou can assign labels to only subgraphs. Labels have the following restrictions
- Both key and value must be 63 characters or less (cannot be empty).
- Must begin and end with an alphanumeric character ([a-z0-9A-Z]).
- Could contain dashes (-), underscores (_), dots (.), and alphanumerics between.
Label matchers are used with Federated Graphs to determine which subgraphs are chosen for composition. They are a set of labels separated by spaces (or the option) and grouped by commas.
To understand how they work here is an example.
--label-matcher team=A,team=B,team=C env=prod is the same as
--label-matcher team=A,team=B,team=C --label-matcher env=prod The above matcher translates to
(team=A || team=B || team=C) && env=prodCreate a federated graph from all subgraphs of Team A, Team B, and Team C but only those which was marked for production.
1.
--labels team=A,provider=aws,env=prod2.
--labels team=B,env=prod3.
--labels team=C,env=devThis will create a federated graph consisting of subgraphs 1 and 2 with labels team=A,team=B, and env=prod.
While labeling is a powerful concept it can be very error-prone to understand the final result of your composition. For those reasons, we provide the CLI commands
That allows you to validate if the composition will produce any errors and what the result will look like at the end.
The routing Url must be specified when creating a federated graph or subgraph. In the case of a federated graph, it points to the Url of your Cosmo router. For subgraphs, it is the service URL that the subgraph will be accessible at.
The label matcher concept allows the expression of any
OR and AND combination to compose multiple subgraphs. That makes it very simple to create and organize multiple environments. Every federated graph represents physically a router instance and every subgraph is a service connected to the router.Last modified 4mo ago