TechTrends Web Application

This is a Flask application that lists the latest articles within the cloud-native ecosystem.

Run

To run this application there are 2 steps required:

Initialize the database by using the python init_db.py command. This will create or overwrite the database.db file that is used by the web application.
Run the TechTrends application by using the python app.py command. The application is running on port 3111 and you can access it by querying the http://127.0.0.1:3111/ endpoint.

To run this application in a Docker container, you can use the following commands:

Build the Docker image by using the make build command. This will create a Docker image with the techtrends:latest tag.
Run the Docker container by using the make run command. This will start a Docker container with the techtrends image and expose the application on port 7111.

To run this application in a Kubernetes cluster, you can use the following commands:

Apply the Kubernetes deployment by using the make k_apply command. This will create a deployment and a service in the sandbox namespace (after creating the namespace if it doesn't exist).
Check that the app is running by shelling into a pod within the sandbox namespace and running the wget -qO- http://{CLUSTER_IP}:4111/healthz command. (or the curl equivalent)