Cool Store: Cloud-Native Microservices Application on Service Mesh

This project is inspired from CoolStore project by JBoss Demo Central & Red Hat Demo Central

The structure of README is inspired from GoogleCloudPlatform Demo.

CoolStore is a containerised polyglot microservices application consisting of services based on .NET Core, NodeJS and more running on Service Mesh.

It demonstrates how to wire up small microservices into a larger application using microservice architectural principals.

Presentation

Our team uses this demo application to demonstrate Kubernetes, AKS, Istio and similar cloud-native technologies in events as following

Prerequisites

Windows 10: The OS for developing and building this demo application .
Windows Subsystem Linux - Ubuntu OS: The subsystem that helps to run easily the bash shell on Windows OS.
Docker for Desktop (Kubernetes enabled): The easiest tool to run Docker, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes on Mac and Windows.
Kubernetes/AKS: The app is designed to run on Kubernetes (both locally on "Docker for Desktop", as well as on the cloud with AKS).
Istio: Application works on Istio service mesh.
helm: The best package manager to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes.
NetCoreKit: Set of Cloud-native tools and utilities for .NET Core.

Overall Architecture of µServices

There are several individual µservices and infrastructure components that make up this app:

No.	Service	Description	Source	Endpoints
1.	IdP (.NET Core + In-memory database)	Uses IdentityServer4 to authentication with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for the whole stack	code	development && staging
2.	Catalog (Node.js + Mongo)	Serves products and prices for retail products	code	development && staging
3.	Cart (.NET Core + MySQL)	Manages shopping cart for each customer	code	development && staging
4.	Inventory (.NET Core + MySQL)	Serves inventory and availability data for retail products	code	development && staging
5.	Pricing (.NET Core + MySQL)	Handles a business rules application for product pricing	code	development && staging
6.	Review (.NET Core + MySQL)	Runs for writing and displaying reviews for products	code	development && staging
7.	Rating (Node.js + Mongo)	Runs for rating products	code	development && staging
8.	Web UI	Frontend based on Blazor - Full-stack web development with C# and WebAssembly	code	development && staging
9.	Web UI (PWA - Vuejs + Node.js) - Obsoleted	Frontend based on vuejs and Node.js	code	development && staging

Installation

Development environment: Up and Running locally with "Docker for Desktop"

Make sure we have Docker for Desktop running with Kubernetes option enabled. We need to install kubectl, helm and istioctl on the build machine as well.
From current console, type bash to enter Linux Subsystem (Ubuntu)
Then cd into your root of project

> ./deploys/scripts/build-all-images.sh

It should run and package all docker images.

Download and install istio-1.0.0 on the box, and unzip it into somewhere, then initialize it with following commands

> cd <istio-1.0.0 path>
> kubectl create -f install/kubernetes/helm/helm-service-account.yaml
> helm init --service-account tiller --upgrade
> helm install install/kubernetes/helm/istio --name istio --namespace istio-system

More information about installing istio can be found at https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/helm-install

Get istio-ingressgateway IP address

> kubectl get services istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o=jsonpath={.spec.clusterIP}
> 10.96.34.68 <== for example, we get the IP as the left-hand side

Create values.dev.local.yaml file in deploys/charts/coolstore, and put content like

gateway:
  ip: 10.96.34.68

Apply istioctl command to coolstore chart

> helm template deploys/charts/coolstore -f deploys/charts/coolstore/values.dev.yaml -f deploys/charts/coolstore/values.dev.local.yaml > deploys/k8s/coolstore.local.yaml
> istioctl kube-inject -f deploys/k8s/coolstore.local.yaml | kubectl apply -f -

Add hosts file with following content

127.0.0.1 api.coolstore.local
127.0.0.1 id.coolstore.local
127.0.0.1 coolstore.local

Waiting for the container provision completed

Install coolstore-istio chart

> helm install deploys\charts\coolstore-istio --name coolstore-istio

Access to following URLs

> curl -I http://coolstore.local # website
> curl -I http://api.coolstore.local # api gateway
> curl -I http://id.coolstore.local # identity provider

Clean up coolstore chart as

> kubectl delete -f deployment/istio/coolstore.local.yaml
> helm delete coolstore-istio --purge
> helm delete istio --purge

Notes:

Global path

Set PATH for docker, kubectl, helm, and istioctl.

Run with Nginx (not recommendation)

If you want to run just only Kubernetes + nginx-ingress go to deploys/charts/coolstore/values.yaml, and modify as following
nginx:
   enabled: true
Then run the helm command as
helm install --name cs-nginx stable/nginx-ingress

Staging and Production environments: Up and Running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

5 steps to bring CoolStore’s Service Mesh to Azure Kubernetes Service

µService Development

Guidance for developing µService can be found at Clean Domain-Driven Design in 10 minutes

Open API

CI/CD

Service Mesh

Istio provide a wealth of benefits for the organizations that use them. There’s no denying, however, that adopting the cloud can put strains on DevOps teams. Developers must use microservices to architect for portability, meanwhile operators are managing extremely large hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Istio lets you connect, secure, control, and observe services.