polarbeargo / nd064_course_1

nd064_C1

TechTrends Background

TechTrends is an online website used as a news sharing platform, that enables consumers to access the latest news within the cloud-native ecosystem. In addition to accessing the available articles, readers are able to create new media articles and share them.

Project Steps Overview:

In this project we will:

• Apply the best development practices and develop the status and health check endpoints for the TechTrends application.
• Package the TechTrends application by creating a Dockefile and Docker image.
• Implement the Continuous Integration practices, by using GitHub Actions to automate the build and push of the Docker image to DockerHub.
• Construct the Kubernetes declarative manifests to deploy TechTrends to a sandbox namespace within a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster should be provisioned using k3s in a vagrant box.
• Template the Kubernetes manifests using a Helm chart and provide the input configuration files for staging and production environments.
• Implement the Continuous Delivery practices, by deploying the TechTrends application to staging and production environments using ArgoCD and the Helm chart.

Project Instructions:

• Step 1: Best Practices For Application Deployment
• Step 2: Docker for Application Packaging
• Step 3: Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
• Step 4: Kubernetes Declarative Manifests
• Step 5: Helm Charts
• Step 6: Continuous Delivery with ArgoCD

Deployment Results:

docker-run-local	ci-github-action
ci-dockerhub	k8s-nodes
kubernetes-declarative-manifests	argocd-ui
argocd-techtrends-prod	argocd-techtrends-staging