basic-microservices-application

Deploy microservices application

Overview

• This hands-on will use the reference microservices from GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

Prerequisite

• Any local K8s cluster up and running (Docker Desktop/Minikube/kind/...)

Steps

0-Check k8s cluster

If you have already installed kubectl and it is pointing to some other environment, such as minikube or a GKE cluster, ensure you change the context so that kubectl is pointing to docker-desktop:

kubectl config get-contexts
kubectl config use-context docker-desktop

# Now check the cluster
kubectl get nodes
kubectl cluster-info

1-Deploy application

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo/main/release/kubernetes-manifests.yaml

2-Access the application

Access the web frontend in a browser using the frontend's port-forwaring.

# check services
kubectl get svc

# forward
kubectl port-forward svc/frontend 8080:80

Now we can access: http://localhost:8080/ , result looks like:

3-Cleanup

Delete the app

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo/main/release/kubernetes-manifests.yaml