Tasker!. API Setup

Task management app includes creating change status delete functionalities. This is an API of the Tasker!

Tasker! is a project that includes the following microservices: service-registry, API-gateway, config-server, and task-service.

Prerequisites

MySQL Server

Make sure you have MySQL Server installed. The project root directory includes the dump structure and data SQL file.

Setup your database connection inside the tasker-service application.yaml

Ex:

datasource:
  url: "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/tasker"
  username: root
  password: password
  driver-class-name: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver

Zipkin

Run Zipkin using Docker:

docker run -d -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin

Zipkin is used for tracing API calls.

Redis

Run Redis using Docker:

docker run --name latestredis -d -p6379:6379 redis

Redis is used for rate limiting to prevent DOS attacks.

Project Startup

Follow the steps below to start the Tasker! project:

1. Service Registry

Start the service-registry microservice.

2. Config Server

Start the config-server microservice.

3. Tasker Service

Start the task-service microservice.

4. API-Gateway

Start the cloud-gateway microservice.

Postman Collection

Access the Postman collection for testing the Tasker! APIs:

Tasker! Postman Collection

Note

Ensure that all dependencies, including Docker and required images, are available in your environment. The Docker commands will automatically pull the images if not present.