Kraftista - The Kubernetes + DevOps Implementation of Polyglot Microservices App Craftista

🔹 Architecture

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How to run

1. Start Minikube

minikube start --driver=docker

2. Enable ingress

minikube addons enable ingress

3. Apply all manifests

kubectl apply -f k8s/

4. Add this to your /etc/hosts

sudo vim /etc/hosts
<your-minikube-ip>  craftista.local

5. Then run

minikube tunnel
(run this on a separate terminal and leave it running)

6. Monitoring Setup

Prometheus

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/prometheus

Access

minikube service prometheus-server-ext

Grafana

helm install grafana grafana/grafana

Access

minikube service grafana-ext

Retrieve admin password

kubectl get secret grafana -o jsonpath="{.data.admin-password}" | base64 --decode

7. Access the application

curl http://craftista.local
curl http://craftista.local/voting
curl http://craftista.local/catalogue