Potential architecture suggestion if opted in the future

[hassanzhd]

Rather than depending upon a clustered docker-compose development setup in production with a working just for the sake of working CI/ CD setup following things can be opted with the case of cloud resources kept in mind:

• Creating a build pipeline that will build react code into production build and then deploy to a bucket or Blob Storage
• Instead of using copy via ssh and copying files for implementation CI, plays (ansible) should be run for building backend image, deploying to docker hub, pulling into production environment (VM) and then restarting app.
• If resources are limited then work within docker-compose constraints or try to refactor effectively by incorporating container images into k8 cluster using Kubernetes which will orchestrate the complete setup

[hassanzhd]

@TashikMoin @Rubix982

[Rubix982]

As I understand this, a build pipeline

• On a successful PR, that uses Ansible to build the backend image
• To push the production build version of the client container to bucket storage, and serving from that storage
• Pushes the newly built docker images to Docker Hubs
• Uses K8s to perform container to VM orchestration

We now need to consider,

• Inadvertently, a load balancer and a middleware that can redirect to the respective VMs
• Do we wish to incorporate GraphQL? It would drastically affect the number of requests sent from the client containers to the backend containers, but this would also need us to restructure our backend
• What will happen to the DB containers? Will we have more than 1 container that stores the data? How will we guarantee consistency? It's not may be worth the while at this time to do this with the MySQL container, but maybe this is possible with MongoDB. Mongo has a slave-master architecture for reading and writing to data stores. Redis is known to not be consistent, and now we need to place the client containers first, then the load balancer, then the Redis checks, then the actual backend.
• A reverse proxy seems to be something to look into