stambuk-cl/news-portal-with-iac

A random news portal with IaC and crazy stuff

Development and operations tools manual setup

You need all the tools below installed locally:

Prerequisites to build the Java applications

• make
• Java
• Leiningen (can be installed using brew install leiningen)

Prerequisites for running infrastructure code

• make
• docker daemon
• terraform
• ssh-keygen
• gcloud cli

Infrastructure setup

This is a multi-step guide to setup some base infrastructure, and then, on top of it, the test environment for the newsfeed application.

Base infrastructure setup

With an assumption that we have a new, empty GCP account, we need to provision some base infrastructure just one time. These steps will provision:

• terraform backend in GCS bucket
• a minimal VPC with 1 subnet
• GCR repositories for docker images

Build the application artifacts

If you haven't built the jars and static resources yet, you should do so now:

make _apps

Build docker images

Artifacts from previous stage will be packaged into docker images, then pushed to ECR.

Each application has its own image. Individual image can be built with:

make <app-name>.docker
# for example:
make front-end.docker

But you can build all images at once with

make docker

Push docker images

Before applications can be deployed on GCP, the docker images have to be pushed:

make _push

Provision services

Then, we can provision the backend and front-end services:

make _news.infra

Terraform will print the output with URL of the front_end server, e.g.

Outputs:

frontend_url = http://34.244.219.156:8080

Delete services

To delete the deployment provisioned by terraform, run following commands:

make _news.deinfra