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Learning Outcomes

• Learn about Vagrant.

• Learn about Nginx.

Problem Statement

We want to deploy our REST API along with its dependent services. For this, you need to spin up a Vagrant box using Vagrantfile. Treat this vagrant box as your production environment.

Expectations

The following expectations should be met to complete this milestone.

• Vagrant box should be spun up using Vagrantfile.

• For setting up the Vagrant box you need to use the bash script with functions to install the required dependencies.

• You need to use the docker-compose and Makefile to do the deployment.

• The final setup should consist of

  • 2 API containers

  • 1 DB container

  • 1 Nginx container

• Here’s the deployment diagram for reference.

• The Nginx deployment configuration should be committed in the GitHub repository along with the Nginx config.

• Nginx should be used for load balancing between these two API containers.

• API should be accessible via port 8080 and internally should load balance requests between two API containers.

• You should get status code 200 while making the request using Postman collection for different API endpoints.

Further Reading

• Vagrant Docs

• Deploying Nginx using Docker

• How to use Nginx Docker image