Project Components

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3.2 Project Components

Below are the required project components, in order of abstraction:

Micro-service Level

• A RESTful API endpoint, allowing request to be made externally and be handled within the service.
  • HTTP protocol is the students' choosing: JSON, XML, or any other protocols are acceptable.
  • Logging of the HTTP request body to STDOUT, per the second deliverable.
• A back-end, which provides some service incoming REST requests.
  • Examples might include a web server to server web pages, a database, a storage service, a computational service, etc.

Docker Level

• A minimum of 2 Docker containers, and a maximum of 4.
  • At least one Docker container which provides the RESTful API.
  • At least one Docker container which services requests as a back-end for the other container running the RESTful API.
  • A communication strategy between the Docker containers.

Kubernetes Level

• A Kubernetes Pod, which contains the Docker containers.
• A Kubernetes Service, which allows requests to be routed from an external source to the appropriate container running the RESTful API.
• Ports used for API endpoints must be within the students' allocated range and must not conflict with ports from other students.