Express.js microservice with a Dockerfile, Kubernetes YAMLs and a non-root user
MIT License
Example to show how to build a microservice with Node.js and Express.js with instructions for: Kubernetes with YAML, OpenFaaS, Docker and running locally with node
git clone https://github.com/alexellis/expressjs-docker \
&& cd expressjs-docker
/
- serves a HTML page/links
- serves a JSON response of links/health
- serves a health endpoint giving 200 OKYou can first try running the example with Kubernetes, then try it with OpenFaaS to compare the experience. OpenFaaS also adds optional templates and an API to remove boilerplate coding: "look ma', (almost) no YAML!"
kubectl apply -f ./yaml
kubectl port-forward deploy/expressjs 8080:8080 &
curl 127.0.0.1:8080
Conservative resource limits / requests values have been set in the YAML files:
resources:
limits:
cpu: 10m
memory: 128Mi
requests:
cpu: 10m
memory: 128Mi
Clean up:
kubectl delete -f ./yaml
See also: /yaml - (optional) - YAML files to deploy to Kubernetes directly
Watch my latest video on OpenFaaS with the PLONK Stack, which is made up of Prometheus, Linkerd (optional), OpenFaaS, NATS, and Kubernetes.
If you don't already have OpenFaaS, then:
Deploy:
faas-cli deploy
Access using the gateway's URL found via faas-cli describe service
Edit/rebuild:
Edit image: alexellis2
and replace with your own Docker Hub username in stack.yml
, then run:
faas-cli up
Cleaning up:
faas-cli rm
See also: stack.yml - (optional) - OpenFaaS deployment file
With OpenFaaS Templates you don't need to bother with managing Dockerfiles and TCP-port bindings, unless you like that sort of thing, then you can do that too just like we did in this example.
Try one of the templates above:
faas-cli template store list
faas-cli template store pull node10-express
faas-cli new --lang node10-express express-fn
Then edit express-fn/hander.js
and express-fn.yml
, before then running:
faas-cli up -f express-fn.yml
What is different?
docker run --name expressjs -p 8081:8080 -ti alexellis2/service:0.3.2
Access via http://localhost:8081
Clean up:
docker rm -f expressjs
npm install
http_port=3000 node index.js
Access via http://localhost:3000
Clean up by hitting Control + C.
First install Helm 3.
helm repo add expressjs-k8s https://alexellis.github.io/expressjs-k8s/
helm repo update
helm install expressjs-k8s-tester expressjs-k8s/expressjs-k8s
index.js - the entry-point for Express.js
stack.yml - (optional) - OpenFaaS deployment file
/yaml - (optional) - YAML files to deploy to Kubernetes directly
Other links:
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