Blog Microservices

Very simple microservices applications for making posts and adding comments. For educational purpose only.

Technologies:

• NodeJS (v15)
• ReactJS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Minikube
• Skaffold
• VirtualBox (add some issues on MacOS with VMware)

Setup Instructions:

Prerequisites: Make sure you have Docker, NodeJS, Minikube, VirtualBox and Skaffold installed.

1. Run Docker
2. Start minikube: minikube start --vm=true --vm-driver=virtualbox
3. Run eval $(minikube docker-env) so that minikube pulls images locally and not from DockerHub. Note: After running this command, make sure to run all following from the same shell session.
4. Run minikube ip and use the returned IP address by adding a new entry in your /etc/hosts file such that: xxx.xxx.xx.xxx posts.com, where xxx.xxx.xx.xxx is the IP address then save the file.
5. From the root folder, run: skaffold dev
6. Open a browser and visit the posts.com URL or run open posts.com from a terminal session