dunse/two-tier-web-app

Technical Test

Task

a) Launch 3 separate linux nodes using the tool/distro of your choice

• 2 x application nodes
• 1 x web node

b) Using a configuration management tool (contractors MUST use Chef)

• Deploy the sample application to the application nodes
• Install Nginx on the web node and balance requests to the application nodes in a round-robin fashion
• Demonstrate the round-robin mechanism is working correctly

Goal

Sending a HTTP request to the web node should return the response

Hi there, I'm served from <application node hostname>!

Usage

Prerequisite

Installed software:

• docker-compose
• wget

Execution

wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dunse/two-tier-web-app/master/run.sh | bash

To rebuild, run "docker-compose build" in the current working directory

Validation

Run more than once:

wget -q -O- http://localhost:8084/

You will see the <application node hostname> change between runs.