Test your Application in the Kubernetes Setup on the Google Cloud Platform
Before you begin
- Google Cloud account with a project and cluster
- Google Cloud SDK
- Kubectl
- Procedure
- From a terminal run the following commands:
gcloud auth login gcloud config set project <your project name> gcloud config set container/cluster <your cluster name> gcloud container clusters get-credentials <your cluster name> --zone <your cluster zone name name> kubectl get nodes
- Tag the application image created in the previous step.
docker tag bwce-http-reqresp-app gcr.io/<your project name>/bwce-http-reqresp-app
- Push your application image to Google Container Registry.
gcloud docker push gcr.io/<your project name>/bwce-http-reqresp-app
- Confirm that the image is present in the Google Container Registry.
- Open the
manifest.yml
file and update the application image name. Ensure the image name follows the formatgcr.io/<your gcloud project name>/<image name>
- Navigate to the samples directory where the manifest file is present and run the following command to create the service:
kubectl create -f manifest.yml
- To check that application has started successfully, type in below command
kubectl logs <pod name>
- After few minutes, the external IP is available. Check it using the following command:
kubectl get service bwce-http-requestreply-service
- Edit the
request_news.html
file, replace the URLhttp://127.0.0.1:8080
with the external IP address, and save the file - Open the
request_news.html
file in a web browser - Click the Get News from Wiki! button to request headlines from the associated web page.