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K8s CC - Task 3: Create the Backend

The full configuration file is here. But let us dissect it. This file will create two resources:

• A Deployment for the backend
• A Service for that backend

Backend Deployment

First we need to configure the resource Type and some Metadata

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: backend-mongodb-deployment
  labels:
    app: backend-mongodb

The above sets a name for this deployment and also a label that will be used to reference this deployment later on. Next, we need to set some specifications:

spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: backend-mongodb
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: backend-mongodb

In the above code we set the replicas to 1 because we need one Pod. and we also set the selector to select the label app: backend-mongodb

Next, we need to set the container specification. We have an Container Image that is already configured with MongoDB. We will set that, and we will also set the default port.

    spec:
      containers:
      - name: backend-mongodb
        image: mongo
        ports:
        - containerPort: 27017

The next step is for us to configure the username and password for the Database. We can do that by setting the environment variables MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME and MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD inside the container. The values of those are being referenced from the mongodb-secret secret we set earlier.

        env:
        - name: MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mongodb-secret
              key: mongo-username
        - name: MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD
          valueFrom: 
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mongodb-secret
              key: mongo-passwor

Creating the service

Finally, we are going to create service and tie it to the deployment we just created:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: backend-mongodb
spec:
  selector:
    app: backend-mongodb
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 27017
      targetPort: 27017

Notice that we used the app: backend-mongodb as a selector and we exposed the same port 27017. Notice also that we don’t have anything that dictates wether we should expose access to this service externally. The default is that we will not.

Apply the Backend

kubectl apply -f example1-mogoApp/backend-mongo-db.yaml

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Task 3: Create the Frontend