weather-api-wrapper

• to run the project firstly clone the repo
• and to run locally hardcode the api key into appsettings.json
• then in your terminal
• docker build -t weather-api-wrapper .
• docker run -p 8080:8080 weather-api-wrapper
• then go to a browser and http://localhost:8080/weather?city=London or whcihever city youd like to check it out with

for the azure container registry method

• first set the secrets in your repo settings
• head on over to actions and run the pipeline
• this should send the container to ACR

To pull and run the image from ACR

• docker pull acrcrg.azurecr.io/aspcoresample:<image_id_from_acr>
• then to run the image
• docker run -p 8080:8080 -e WEATHER_API_KEY=your_key acrcrg.azurecr.io/aspcoresample:1b214a811629ad5572caa8790bec50e805b660b4
• Then as above head on over to a local browser and so and so

Now to test out the deployment via aks

• usually youd do this with admin permissions and run

az ad sp create-for-rbac

• save the json output as a github secret AZURE_CREDENTIALS

My account sadly does not have access so I couldnt create the pipeline rather had to deploy manually using kubectl and deployment.yml

az login
az aks get-credentials --resource-group crg --name akscrg
kubectl get pods
kubectl create secret generic weather-api-secret --from-literal=WEATHER_API_KEY=ENTER_YOUR_ACTUAL_KEY_HERE
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml
kubectl get svc

if youd prefer forwarding it locallly and testing it

kubectl port-forward svc/weather-api-service 8080:80

got to the public ip and forward the query as before

to stop the server temporarily scale to 0

 kubectl scale deployment weather-api --replicas=0

and to resume

kubectl scale deployment weather-api --replicas=1