Overview

This is a very simple, bare-bones NodeJS and ExpressJS project created.

Local Setup

• Install dependencies: npm install
• Run server: node server.js

Usage

By default, the application should be loaded on localhost:8080. It should provide an HTTP 200 response when loaded at localhost:8080/health.

Container Setup

• Build image: docker build .
• Run container with image: docker run {image_id} where image_id can be retrieved by running docker images and found under the column IMAGE ID
• TravisCI was useed in continous integration. image was built and pushed to docker registry Docker Hub, where it is pulled by AWS EKS, to set up pods in K8S services.
• The reverse proxy file is another pod set up to proxy url addresse.
• Nginx server was used for proxy.
• Kubectl was used to intreact with K8S.

Sample bare-bones nginx.conf file

}
http {
  server {
      listen <PORT_NUMBER>;
      location /<PROXY_PATH>/ {
          proxy_pass http://<REDIRECT_PATH>/;
      }
  }
}