cloudlife

What if Conway's Game of Life was a cloud-native serverless application written for WASI using TinyGo and deployed using Fermyon Spin?

Welcome to cloudlife... "Life As A Service"

Uses Vita for the Go language Game of Life implementation.

Building the application

spin build

Running the application

spin up

Endpoints

Multiverse

All operations on the multiverse are applied to all existing universes.

• POST /multiverse?n=2

  Creates new universes in a grid. Pass the n query parameter to create a specific number of universes.

  Returns the list of IDs for each universe that is created.

• GET /multiverse

  Returns the list of IDs for each universe that has been created.

• PUT /multiverse

  Advances each universe by 1 generation.

  Returns the cells for each universe after it has advanced.

• DELETE /multiverse

  Deletes all universes.

Universe

All operations on a universe only apply to that specific universe.

• POST /universe

  Creates a new universe.

  Returns the ID for the new universe that is created.

• GET /universe/:id

  Returns the current cells for the universe with the specific ID.

• PUT /universe/:id

  Advances the universe with the specific ID by 1 generation.

  Returns the cells for the universe after it has advanced.

• PUT /universe/:id?topid=:tid&bottomid=:bid&leftid=:leftid&rightid=:rid

  Sets the neighbors for the universe with the specific ID to the universes with the respective ID and position e.g. top, bottom, left, and right. Does not advance the universe to the next generation.

• DELETE /universe/:id

  Deletes the universe with the specific ID.

lifectl

lifectl is a command life tool to control cloudlife applications.

Building

cd ./cmd/lifectl
go install .

Running

$ lifectl
NAME:
   lifectl - Control your cloudlife

USAGE:
   lifectl [global options] command [arguments]

COMMANDS:
   start    Starts a cloudlife application
   run      Runs the cloudlife application
   stop     Stops a cloudlife application
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --host value  Host to use to connect to the cloudlife application (default: "http://localhost:3000")
   --help, -h    show help