DotNet Hello World Example walkthrough

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This walkthrough will help you learn how to create a .NET Core microservice from scratch.

Create a microservice

In order to do so, access to Mia-Platform DevOps Console, create a new project and go to the Design area. From the Design area of your project select Microservices and then create a new one, you have now reached Mia-Platform Marketplace!
In the marketplace you will see a set of Examples and Templates that can be used to set-up microservices with a predefined and tested function.

For this walkthrough select the following example: .NET Core HelloWorld Microservice Example. After clicking on this template you will be asked to give the following information:

• Name (Internal Hostname)
• GitLab Group Name
• GitLab Repository Name
• Docker Image Name
• Description (optional)

You can read more about this fields in Manage your Microservices from the Dev Console section of Mia-Platform documentation.

Give your microservice the name you prefer, in this walkthrough we'll refer to it with the following name: hello-example. Then, fill the other required fields and confirm that you want to create a microservice. You have now generated a hello-example repository that is already deployed on Mia-Platform Nexus Repository Manager once build script in CI is successful. A more detailed description on how to create a Microservice can be found in Microservice from template - Get started section of Mia-Platform documentation.

Expose an endpoint to your microservice

In order to access to your new microservice it is necessary to create an endpoint that targets it.
In particular, in this walkthrough you will create an endpoint to your microservice hello-example. To do so, from the Design area of your project select Endpoints and then create a new endpoint. Now you need to choose a path for your endpoint and to connect this endpoint to your microservice. Give to your endpoint the following path: /greetings. Then, specify that you want to connect your endpoint to a microservice and, finally, select hello-example.
Step 3 of Microservice from template - Get started section of Mia-Platform documentation will explain in detail how to create an endpoint from the DevOps Console.

Save your changes

After having created an endpoint to your microservice you should save the changes that you have done to your project in the DevOps console.
Remember to choose a meaningful title for your commit (e.g "created service hello_example"). After some seconds you will be prompted with a popup message which confirms that you have successfully saved all your changes.
Step 4 of Microservice from template - Get started section of Mia-Platform documentation will explain how to correctly save the changes you have made on your project in the DevOps console.

Deploy

Once all the changes that you have made are saved, you should deploy your project through the DevOps Console. Go to the Deploy area of the DevOps Console.
Once here select the environment and the branch you have worked on and confirm your choices clicking on the deploy button. When the deploy process is finished you will receveive a pop-up message that will inform you.
Step 5 of Microservice from template - Get started section of Mia-Platform documentation will explain in detail how to correctly deploy your project.

Try it

Now, if you launch the following command on your terminal (remember to replace <YOUR_PROJECT_HOST> with the real host of your project):

curl <YOUR_PROJECT_HOST>/greetings/

you should see the following message:

"Hello [your user id]"

Congratulations! You have successfully learnt how to use our .NET Core Hello World Example on the DevOps Console!