eShopOnContainers VS osxcross

The eShopOnContainers is pretty popular, have you seen it yet? https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers

so I was exploring eShopOnContainers a little bit, more specifically the messages queues part and it made me wonder how is it possible to ensure data consistency across microservices when using them. If I'm not mistaken this isn't even shown in the eShopOnContainers examples.

For an example of an aggregate if you're unfamiliar - https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers/blob/3169a933447f1013c069e2cad2805c5de1ce9fbf/src/Services/Ordering/Ordering.Domain/AggregatesModel/OrderAggregate/Order.cs

You can check out eShopOnContainers as a reference architecture if you want, but (assuming this is meant to be somewhat of an ad hoc solution rather than a paragon of software engineering) I'd minimize the number of deployable assemblies (1 + tests if possible) and avoid Docker, again unless you have a specific reason to use it.

For K8s, it has a whole directory with deployment scripts. https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers/tree/dev/deploy/k8s

Checked the eshop on containers which uses EF for writes with DDD. Queries uses Dapper with raw sql. https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers/blob/dev/src/Services/Ordering/Ordering.API/Application/Queries/OrderQueries.cs

Maybe Microsoft’s eShopOnContainers reference system?

If you actually have MacOS device and can install Xcode and so on then you can proceed here and read the instructions.

Have you considered using a dockerized osxcross cross compiler toolchain in your CI? Granted it is a bit clunky to setup...

Technically it's possible, but possibly not legal:

https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross

> Please ensure you have read and understood the Xcode license terms before continuing.

According to the EULA you may only use the SDK on Apple-branded computers. But you can use Linux to cross compile to Apple.

is there a way to cross compile without vms? something similar to https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross?

If you figure out how to get SDL working, one possibility is to develop on Linux, then use mingw-w64 to cross compile from Linux to windows, then use osxcross to cross-compile from Windows to OSX.

Thank you osxcross for creating the path forward

This is actually a solved problem, using osxcross[0]. The experience is honestly very smooth, and we don't require any apple proprietary binaries. The only thing apple-proprietary is their SDK (containing the header files for compiling, and tbd files for linking), which can be downloaded from apple's website (at least if you have a developer account), or from various GitHub projects archiving them.

[0]: https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross