Python Static Website with Kubernetes

Steps to deploy:

• Deploy the Terraform code under terraform folder which will create EKS Cluster with VPC and ECR.
• Build the docker image and push it into ECR.
  • Authenticate to AWS ECR using the command aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 165387667510.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  • Build the image using the command docker build -t webapp .
  • Tag the image docker tag webapp:latest aws_account.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/webapp:latest
  • Push the image to ECR docker push aws_account.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/webapp:latest
• Create Kube config file using AWS CLI. Run the below command aws eks --region <region-code> update-kubeconfig --name <cluster_name> --role-arn <role_arn>
• Update the image name in deployment.yaml file with the ECR url.
• Setup secrets by running the command. Secret values are base 64 encoded and stored in it. kubectl apply -f mysecret.yaml
• Deploy pods by running the command. kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml
• Check the Pod status by running kubectl get pods
• Access the website using the ELB URL by running the command. This will display the external IP of the ELB and it can be accessed as :5005 kubectl get svc
• If the site has to be accessed from local. It can be achieved through port forwarding with below command. Once it is run, the site can be accessed as localhost:5001 kubectl port-forward svc/<servicename> 5005:5001