Deploying the Application Locally

To deploy the application locally, follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have the necessary tools installed:

   • Helm
   • kubectl
   • A running Kubernetes cluster (e.g., Minikube)

2. Run the deployment script:

   ./deploy.sh

   By default, this will deploy the application in the dev environment. To specify a different environment, pass the environment name as an argument: Currently only dev environment is supported

3. Verify the deployment:

   • Check the status of the Helm releases:

     helm list -n remarket

   • Get the details of the Ingress:

     kubectl get ingress -n remarket

4. Access the application: By default kubernetes does not allow external trafic goin into the cluster. To access the application you need to forward port from you local machine to the kubernetes cluster.

   Important notice

   To access application you MUST use host name i.e. localhost. This is done because, nginx can resolve only proper DNS names, which 127.0.0.1 IP does not satisfy.

   Minikube

   minikube service remarket-ingress-nginx-controller --url -n remarket
   

   Please note output may look something like:

   http://127.0.0.1:43489
   http://127.0.0.1:39733
   ❗ Because you are using a Docker driver on linux, the terminal needs to be open to run it.
   

   There is 2 IPs, because NGINX, exports both 80 and 443 ports. The first port is the mapped to 80.

   Local kubernetes (ex. Docker desktop)

   kubectl port-forward --namespace=remarket service/remarket-ingress-nginx-controller 3000:80
   

   The app is now available at http://localhost:3000.

5. Delete aplication: To uninstall remarket simply run:

   helm uninstall remarket -n remarket