Objective: Deploy the Socks Shop application, a microservices-based architecture, on Kubernetes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The goal is to automate and streamline the deployment process, ensuring clarity, maintainability, and security.
Provision the Socks Shop example microservice application from the following repositories:
All deliverables must be deployed using an Infrastructure as Code approach. Emphasize readability and maintainability in your application deployment. Provide a clear way to recreate your setup, with evaluations based on:
- Deploy pipeline
- Metrics (Alertmanager)
- Monitoring (Grafana)
- Logging (Prometheus)
- Use Prometheus for monitoring.
- Use Ansible or Terraform for configuration management.
- Deploy on a Kubernetes cluster using an IaaS provider of your choice.
- Ensure the application runs on HTTPS with a Let’s Encrypt certificate.
- Secure the infrastructure with network perimeter security access rules.
- Use Ansible Vault to encrypt sensitive information.
- Terraform Configuration: For provisioning the infrastructure on AWS, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, and EKS cluster.
- Deployment Pipeline Configuration: Using GitHub Actions.
- Kubernetes Manifests: For deploying the Socks Shop application.
- Prometheus Configuration: For monitoring the application.
- ELK Stack Configuration: For centralized logging.
- Ansible Playbooks: For securing the infrastructure.
- Documentation: Detailed instructions on how to run the project.
microservices-demo.github.io/
├── .github/
│ └── workflows/
│ └── deploy.yaml # GitHub Actions workflow for CI/CD automation.
├── kubernetes/
│ ├── sock-shop-deployment.yaml # Kubernetes deployment manifests
│ └── sock-shop-ingress.yaml # Kubernetes ingress manifest
├── manifests-monitoring/
│ ├── prometheus/
│ │ └── values.yaml # Custom values for Prometheus Helm chart
│ └── grafana/
│ └── values.yaml # Custom values for Grafana Helm chart
├── logging/
│ ├── elasticsearch.yaml # Elasticsearch deployment
│ ├── filebeat.yaml # Fluentd configuration
│ └── kibana-deployment.yaml # Kibana dashboard configuration
| └── cronjob.yaml # Fluentd configuration
| └── metricbeat.yaml # Fluentd configuration
| └── logstash-deployment.yaml # Fluentd configuration
├── terraform/
│ ├── main.tf # Main Terraform configuration for AWS EKS
│ ├── terraform.tf # Terraform configuration
│ ├── outputs.tf # Terraform outputs
│ └── variables.tf # Variables configuration
└──README.md
mkdir socks-shop-deploy
cd socks-shop-deploy
git clone https://github.com/microservices-demo/microservices-demo.github.io.git
cd microservices-demo.github.io/deploy/terraform
terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply --auto-approve
Below is a screenshot of my EKS cluster being provisioned by terraform👇🏽:
- Configure AWS CLI and kubectl:
Run the command below and Follow the instructions to store credentials of your IAM user on your local environment and Update your Kubectl Config
aws configure
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name=socks-shop-cluster --region=us-east-2
cd microservices-demo.github.io/deploy/kubernetes
kubectl apply -f sock-shop-deployment.yaml
You can now use the kubeconfig file to access the Kubernetes cluster and deploy the Socks Shop application.
kubectl get all -n sock-shop
You can also use the following command to verify that the Socks Shop application is running on the Kubernetes cluster:
kubectl get all -A
After we confirm that our pods are running, we can now test the application by port-forwarding the service to our local machine using the following command:
kubectl port-forward service/front-end -n sock-shop 30001:80
- To Deploy Globally with security (Https):
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/main/deploy/static/provider/cloud/deploy.yaml
kubectl apply -f global-service.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.11.1/cert-manager.crds.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.11.1/cert-manager.yaml
helm repo add jetstack https://charts.jetstack.io
helm repo update
helm install cert-manager jetstack/cert-manager --namespace cert-manager --create-namespace --version v1.11.1 --set installCRDs=true
kubectl get pods --namespace cert-manager
kubectl apply -f clusterissuer.yaml
kubectl get service front-end -n sock-shop
Create a .github/workflows/deploy.yaml file:
navigate to github console and Store AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY credentials on github as a secrete variable.
name: Deploy Sock Shop Application
on: push: branches: - master
jobs: terraform: name: Terraform runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Configure AWS Credentials
uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
with:
aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
aws-region: us-east-2
- name: Login to Amazon ECR
id: login-ecr
uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v1
- name: install kubectl
run: |
sudo curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
# install terraform
- name: install terraform cli
uses: hashicorp/setup-terraform@v3
- name: Terraform Init
working-directory: ./deploy/terraform
run: terraform init
- name: Terraform Plan
id: plan
working-directory: ./deploy/terraform
run: terraform plan
# tf apply and deploy to EKS
- name: Terraform apply
id: apply
working-directory: ./deploy/terraform
run: terraform apply --auto-approve
- name: AWS EKS with Kubectl
uses: giovannirossini/aws-eks@v1.0.1
with:
aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
aws-region: 'us-east-2'
cluster-name: 'socks-shop-cluster'
command: |
kubectl apply -f ./deploy/kubernetes/sock-shop-deployment.yaml
- Create Monitoring Namespace:
cd ../manifests-monitoring/prometheus
kubectl create -f 00-monitoring-ns.yaml
- Deploy Prometheus:
kubectl apply $(ls _-prometheus-_.yaml | awk ' { print " -f " $1 } ')
kubectl port-forward service/prometheus 31090:9090 -n monitoring
- Deploy Grafana:
kubectl apply $(ls _-grafana-_.yaml | awk ' { print " -f " $1 }' | grep -v grafana-import)
kubectl apply -f 23-grafana-import-dash-batch.yaml
kubectl port-forward service/grafana 31300:3000 -n monitoring
- Deploy ELK Stack:
cd ../logging
kubectl apply -f .
kubectl get all -n kube-system
kubectl port-forward service/kibana 5601:5601 -n kube-system
- Implement HTTPS using Let's Encrypt certificates.
- Configure network perimeter security access rules.
- Use Ansible Vault to encrypt sensitive information.
This project provides hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, DevOps best practices, and cloud security. By the end of the project, you will have a fully functional deployment pipeline for the Socks Shop application, including infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, logging, and security.