SOCK SHOP MICROSERVICES APP

PLEASE REFER TO THIS FOLDER FOR THE SECOND APP: PORTFOLIO APP

Stacks:

• GCP provider
• Docker
• Kubernetes (GKE)
• Prometheus as a monitoring tool.
• Terraform as the configuration management tool.

live load balanced url for the sock shop microservice http://altschool.ugwulo.me

live url for Prometheus deployment

I couldn't deploy the Grafana pod because of limited resources and excessive billing for spinning up enough instances in GCP

How to recreate this project on GCP

• Setup terraform on your local machine
• Setup Google cloud sdk

sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin

• a Google service account is created by terraform in the node_pools.tf file
• This will generate a private key tha we'll use to connect to GCP
• Go ahead and run terraform apply to create your GKE cluster

Deploy the Sock Shop after creating the cluster

• Clone the microservices-demo repository
• CD into the deploy/kubernetes folder then run the following

kubectl create namespace sock-shop

• change the default context to sock-shop

kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=sock-shop

• deploy the manifest files

kubectl apply -f complete-demo.yaml

• describe the front-end pod

kubectl describe pod *"service-name"*
kubectl get svc

• wait for the external IP to be allocated then copy it and test

PLEASE REFER TO THIS FOLDER FOR THE SECOND APP: PORTFOLIO APP