devops-challenge

SimpleTimeService

A simple Flask-based microservice that returns the current timestamp and the visitor's IP address in JSON format. Flask is used to create the web server. The root endpoint (/) will return the current timestamp and the IP address of the client in JSON format.

Requirements and Install dependencies

Docker, python, flask RUN pip install --no-cache-dir Flask

Dockerfile

The Dockerfile uses a slim Python base image, installs the required dependencies, and sets up a non-root user. The application will run on port 8080.

Build and Run the Application

command to build docker build -t simpletimeservice . docker run -p 8080:8080 simpletimeservice

#DockerHub command to push the image to dockerhub docker tag simpletimeservice gaurmukul378/simpletimeservice:latest docker push gaurmukul378/simpletimeservice:latest

You can also pull the image from DockerHub:

After pushing the code and the Docker image, you can test by pulling the image from DockerHub:

docker pull gaurmukul378/simpletimeservice:latest docker run -p 8080:8080 gaurmukul378/simpletimeservice:latest output - {"ip":"172.17.0.1","timestamp":"2025-02-02T08:52:05.790160"}