Content Crafters

Description

Content Crafters is a microservice that manages metadata for programs and user data. It also handles information about content imports, edits, and shares. The service stores data related to likes, comments, and social interactions related to content. Additionally, it manages versioning information and collaborative changes to programs.

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jabibamman/content_crafters.git

Change directory

cd content_crafters

Install dependencies

cargo build

Run the application

cargo run

The application will start at http://localhost:8080.

If you want to run the application with different port, you can set the APP_PORT environment variable.

APP_PORT=3000 cargo run

Kubernetes

The application provides a Kubernetes deployment file in the k8s directory. You can deploy the application using the following command:

./deploy_k8s.sh

The script will create a namespace, deployment, and service for the application.

For the environment variables

We use a secret service to store the environment variables. You can create the secret using the following command:

kubectl apply -f secret.yaml

If you want to add more environment variables, you can add them to the secret.yaml file.

WARNING: The environment variables are base64 encoded. You can encode your environment variables using the following command:

echo -n "your-environment-variable" | base64

CLI

The application also provides a CLI to interact with the service. You can run the CLI using the following command:

cargo run -- --help

Dockerize the application

Build the image

docker build -t content_crafters .

Run the container

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -e APP_PORT=3000 content_crafters

If you want to run the container with logs, you can add the -e VERBOSE=1 OR -e DEBUG=1 OR -e TRACE=1 flag to the docker run command.

Docker Compose

You can also use Docker Compose to run the application. The docker-compose.yml file is already provided in the repository. You can run the application using the following command:

docker-compose up --build

Useful GCC commands

Get all the ip adresses of the current cluster

> gcloud compute instances list --filter="name~'gke-'" --format="table(name, networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs[0].natIP)"