ZhongXiLu / DistributedComputing

Social Media Platform Built on Microservices

Distributed Computing

Group 6:

• Zhong-Xi Lu
• Angela Mizero
• Thomas Van Bogaert

Documentation

The documentation can be found in the report.

Setup

Note that step 1 and 2 can be skipped, since the images are prebuilt and publicly available on DockerHub.

1. Get kompose (in project root directory):

curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.18.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o kompose
chmod +x kompose

2. Build and push images to DockerHub (in project root directory):

   1. Export docker-hub username (used in docker-compose file): export DOCKER_USERNAME=<username>
   2. Store docker-hub user credentials: docker login
   3. Build and push all images using kompose: kompose -f docker-compose-dev-kube.yml up

3. Set up the services in kubernetes (in project root directory):

   1. Start minikube in the background: minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4
   2. Create pods: kubectl create -f export/
   3. Wait until all pods are running
   4. Set up: ./setup.sh
   5. The url's to access the main and chat application can be found via following commands:

      minikube service frontend --url
      minikube service chat --url

   6. Run all tests: ./runAllTests.sh