Book Review Application

Overview

This repository contains the Book Review Application, a cloud-native application deployed on Kubernetes. It serves as a demonstration of deploying monolithic applications on Kubernetes on a production-grade cluster.

Infrastructure

The underlying Kubernetes cluster for this application is provisioned using kOps on AWS. The infrastructure automation and cluster lifecycle management are handled by the k8s-with-kops project.

Cluster Details

The cluster infrastructure (managed in k8s-with-kops) features:

• Provisioning Tool: kOps (Kubernetes Operations).
• Cloud Provider: AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Networking: Calico CNI for pod networking.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform is used alongside kOps for state management and resource provisioning.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions workflows automate the deployment and destruction of the cluster.

For details on the cluster creation process, refer to the deploy-cluster.yml workflow in the k8s-with-kops repository.

CI/CD Pipeline

This project utilizes GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. The pipeline ensures code quality and automates the delivery process:

• Build & Test: Compiles the code and runs automated tests.
• Code Quality: Integrates with SonarCloud for static analysis.
• Containerization: Builds Docker images and pushes them to a container registry.
• Deployment: Applies Kubernetes manifests to the cluster created by k8s-with-kops.

Kubernetes Manifests

The application's lifecycle in the cluster is defined by Kubernetes manifest files found in this repository. These manifests include:

• Deployment: Defines the application pods, replica sets, and update strategies.
• Service: Exposes the application to the network.
• Ingress/ConfigMaps: Handles external access and configuration management.