P2PMESSENGER

P2PMessenger is an asycnchronous and real-time messaging system. It also has an inbuilt support for user registeration and authentication.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Python/Django
• DjangoRestFramework
• Channels
• PostgreSQL
• Redis

RUNNING PROJECT (Docker compose)

• Run docker compose build to build the images for the project

• Run docker compose up to start the project; the api endpoint can be accessed at http://127.0.0.1:8081 .

• To shutdown the project, run docker compose down

DEPLOYING (K8S)

All deployment script (yaml) are in the k8s/ folder. You can either apply them manually kubectl apply -f ... or use the deploy.sh helper script.

To use the helper script

chmod +x ./deploy.sh
./deploy.sh

Notes

The deployment will create 3 (cache, db, web) pods on the k8s cluster.

• The web cluster will have 3 replicasets of the backend service and 1 service with LoadBalancing capability. The service will expose port 8080 of the backend service over port 80.
• Both cache and db pods will have one replicaset and a clusterIP service of respective container.

ENDPOINT DOCUMENTATION

Endpoints are documented in POSTMAN and can be viewed here