Test your C++ deployment

Table of contents

Prerequisites

Overview

In this section, you'll learn how to use Docker Desktop to deploy your application to a fully-featured Kubernetes environment on your development machine. This allows you to test and debug your workloads on Kubernetes locally before deploying.

Create a Kubernetes YAML file

In your c-plus-plus-docker directory, create a file named docker-kubernetes.yml. Open the file in an IDE or text editor and add the following contents. Replace DOCKER_USERNAME/REPO_NAME with your Docker username and the name of the repository that you created in Configure CI/CD for your C++ application.

apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata:  name: docker-c-plus-plus-demo  namespace: default spec:  replicas: 1  selector:  matchLabels:  service: ok-api  template:  metadata:  labels:  service: ok-api  spec:  containers:  - name: ok-api-service  image: DOCKER_USERNAME/REPO_NAME  imagePullPolicy: Always --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata:  name: service-entrypoint  namespace: default spec:  type: NodePort  selector:  service: ok-api  ports:  - port: 8080  targetPort: 8080  nodePort: 30001

In this Kubernetes YAML file, there are two objects, separated by the ---:

  • A Deployment, describing a scalable group of identical pods. In this case, you'll get just one replica, or copy of your pod. That pod, which is described under template, has just one container in it. The container is created from the image built by GitHub Actions in Configure CI/CD for your C++ application.
  • A NodePort service, which will route traffic from port 30001 on your host to port 8080 inside the pods it routes to, allowing you to reach your app from the network.

To learn more about Kubernetes objects, see the Kubernetes documentation.

Deploy and check your application

  1. In a terminal, navigate to c-plus-plus-docker and deploy your application to Kubernetes.

    $ kubectl apply -f docker-kubernetes.yml

    You should see output that looks like the following, indicating your Kubernetes objects were created successfully.

    deployment.apps/docker-c-plus-plus-demo created service/service-entrypoint created

  2. Make sure everything worked by listing your deployments.

    $ kubectl get deployments

    Your deployment should be listed as follows:

    NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE docker-c-plus-plus-demo 1/1 1 1 10s

    This indicates all one of the pods you asked for in your YAML are up and running. Do the same check for your services.

    $ kubectl get services

    You should get output like the following.

    NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 88m service-entrypoint NodePort 10.105.145.223 <none> 8080:30001/TCP 83s

    In addition to the default kubernetes service, you can see your service-entrypoint service, accepting traffic on port 30001/TCP.

  3. In a browser, visit the following address. You should see the message {"Status" : "OK"}.

    http://localhost:30001/

  4. Run the following command to tear down your application.

    $ kubectl delete -f docker-kubernetes.yml

Summary

In this section, you learned how to use Docker Desktop to deploy your C++ application to a fully-featured Kubernetes environment on your development machine.

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