Silly Apps

Some silly apps to play with.

Architecture

With some blanks.

Requirements Checklist

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Base requirements

• Automation: scripts should be provided for building and deploying the entire cluster.
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• Helm is used to create the kubernetes resources
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• Kubernetes resources have resource limits / requests configured
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• Environment variables needed by the apps are configured via kubernetes resources
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• /flask/fib endpoint in the flask service is not publicly exposed
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• The BE services are deployed in backend namespace and FE service in frontend namespace
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• Accessing resources in the cluster should be done only via Ambassador API Gateway and resources (FE and public BE endpoints) are publicly accessible on a single domain
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• Docker images employ best security practices and are small. Bonus: Build optimisation (duration, consumed resources)
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Additional requirements

• Auto scaling
  • Auto-scaling based on cpu/ram consumption (for generating more cpu/memory usage any of the services can be modified as needed)
  • All taken steps to implement and test are listed
• Monitoring:
  • Configure basic cluster monitoring for nodes and pods with Prometheus and consume statistics from Ambassador.
  • Bonus: Alerting configured
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