Overview

The main branch of the project is used to support following blog posts:

• Configure a project in an IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift cluster to access the IBM Cloud Container Registry

The vend application

Here is a short overview of the vend application example functionalities and how the example application is realized.

• What it does?

  • Uses basic authenication to secure the REST endpoint for an user and an admin
  • Provides access codes by REST endpoints to an user
  • Updates of access codes can be done with an admin user
  • You get access codes as an user
  • It logs parts of the REST API invokation in an IBM Cloudant Database, if the database is configured.
  • It logs parts of the REST API invokation and startup procedure in a local log file.

• How the example application is realized?

  • Is a Node.js server application to provide access codes

  • The application can be executed in a container

  • For deployments in an OpenShift cluster it has preconfigured

    • Configmap for application configuration
    • Deployment for the application
    • Persistent volumes for local log files
    • Secrets for user and admin passwords
    • Kubernetes Service
    • OpenShift route to access the application from the internet (HTTP only)