Dirrk / stairwell-takehome

Stairwell Kubernetes Takehome

If you're reading this, you probably like Kubernetes. Or not. I don't know; I'm just a README file. This repository contains starter code for two servers. In a nutshell, your goal is to deploy them and make them talk to each other.

The first server is in the entrypoint folder. You can think of it as a user-facing API server. It should be on Kubernetes and available to the public Internet. It has the second server as a dependency.

The second server is in the generator folder. You can think of it as a backend server with high compute requirements. Since cloud costs (in this hypothetical scenario) can get expensive, we DO NOT want this on Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

There are a couple of dependencies that you'll need:

• python
• go
• docker
• kubectl

This takehome assumes working knowledge over all of these.

Requirements

There are many ways to solve this takehome. The actual code and implementation matters less than the end behavior. Here are the specific conditions we require:

1. The entrypoint server must be deployed to Kubernetes.
2. The entrypoint server must be publicly reachable.
3. The generator server must NOT be deployed to Kubernetes.
4. The generator server must NOT be publicly reachable.
5. The entrypoint server must be able to reach the generator server.

You will be expected to demo this and show that it works.

Other Pro Tips

• When developing with Kubernetes, you can use minikube or some local single-node cluster. At least that's what I did when creating this takehome challenge.
• Feel free to modify any of the code as necessary. The solution is not meant to be prescriptive in any way.
• Reach out if you have questions. This is meant to be a collaborative challenge, not some form of medieval torture.