gRPC is a cross-platform open source high performance Remote Procedure Call framework. gRPC was initially created by Google, which has used a single general-purpose RPC infrastructure called Stubby to connect the large number of microservices running within and across its data centers for over a decade.
Prerequisites
php: version 7.0 or above (PHP 5.x support is deprecated from Sep 2020).peclcomposerphpunit(optional)- zlib-devel (sudo dnf -y install zlib-devel)
Install the grpc extension
There are two ways to install the grpc extension.
- Via
pecl - Build from source
Install from PECL
# [sudo] pecl install grpc
or specific version
# [sudo] pecl install grpc-1.51.3
Note: You should add "extension=grpc.so" to php.ini
# echo "extension=grpc.so" >> /etc/php.ini
Please make sure your gcc version satisfies the minimum requirement as specified here.