Step 1 - Deploy and publish the API Sentence app in Kubernetes

It’s now time to deploy the API Sentence app :)

With Kubernetes, there are several ways to deploy containers (pods). One way is to use the kubectl command with a YAML deployment file (manifest).

We have a YAML manifest file to deploy all the various API micro-services, attributs_without_colors.yaml. You can find a short extract below (this is only for the adjectives micro-service), and see that it will deploy a container image from our GitLab repo:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: adjectives
spec:
type: NodePort
ports:
- port: 80
    nodePort: 31100
    targetPort: 8080
selector:
    app: adjectives
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: adjectives
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
    matchLabels:
    app: adjectives
template:
    metadata:
    labels:
        app: adjectives
    spec:
    containers:
    - name: adjectives
        image: registry.gitlab.com/sentence-application/adjectives/volterra:latest
        imagePullPolicy: Always
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080

Steps :

1. SSH (or WebSSH) to the Docker (k3s + Rancher + ELK) VM. Run the following commands to start up the Kubernetes cluster:

   sudo su
   kubectl apply -f /home/ubuntu/k3s/attributs_without_colors.yaml -n api
   kubectl apply -f /home/ubuntu/k3s/generator-direct.yaml -n api
   

2. RDP to the Win10 VM. Login by using user as both the user and the password credentials (you will need to use an RDP client):

   • Open the Edge Browser and select the Rancher bookmark. If you get a Your connection isn't private warning, click Advanced -> Continue to <IP> (unsafe).
   • Login into the Rancher dashboard by using admin as the user and F5twister$2022 as the password credentials.
   • Click on the Cluster Explorer yellow button on the top right corner.
   • On the left menu, select Deployments. From here, you can see the Deployments running in each NameSpace:

   
   1. On the left menu, select Services. From here, you can see the Services running in each NameSpace:
   

As you can see, the Colors micro-service is not yet deployed. This is on purpose. DevOps didn’t manage to finish this micro-service on time for this API’s initial release, v1.0. As such, the API Sentence app will generate a sentence without a color.

(For your interest – we already deployed for you the Frontend micro-service through the NGINX Ingress Controller.)