AWS Containers Retail Sample

This is a sample application designed to illustrate various concepts related to containers on AWS. It presents a sample retail store application including a product catalog, shopping cart and checkout.

It provides:

• A distributed component architecture in various languages and frameworks
• Utilization of a variety of different persistence backends for different components like MySQL, DynamoDB and Redis
• The ability to run in various container orchestration technologies like Docker Compose, Kubernetes etc.
• Pre-built containers image for both x86-64 and ARM64 CPU architectures
• All components instrumented for Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry OTLP tracing
• Support for Istio on Kubernetes
• Load generator which exercises all of the infrastructure

This project is intended for educational purposes only and not for production use.

Application Architecture

The application has been deliberately over-engineered to generate multiple de-coupled components. These components generally have different infrastructure dependencies, and may support multiple "backends" (example: Carts service supports MongoDB or DynamoDB).

Component	Language	Container Image	Description
	Java	Link	Aggregates API calls to the various other services and renders the HTML UI.
	Go	Link	Product catalog API
	Java	Link	User shopping carts API
	Java	Link	User orders API
	Node	Link	API to orchestrate the checkout process
	Nginx	Link	Serves static assets like images related to the product catalog

Quickstart

The following sections provide quickstart instructions for various platforms. All of these assume that you have cloned this repository locally and are using a CLI thats current directory is the root of the code repository.

Kubernetes

This deployment method will run the application in an existing Kubernetes cluster.

Pre-requisites:

• Kubernetes cluster
• kubectl installed locally

Use kubectl to run the application:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws-containers/retail-store-sample-app/main/dist/kubernetes/deploy.yaml
kubectl wait --for=condition=available deployments --all

Get the URL for the frontend load balancer like so:

kubectl get svc ui

To remove the application use kubectl again:

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws-containers/retail-store-sample-app/main/dist/kubernetes/deploy.yaml

Docker Compose

This deployment method will run the application on your local machine using docker-compose, and will build the containers as part of the deployment.

Pre-requisites:

• Docker installed locally

Change directory to the Docker Compose deploy directory:

cd dist/docker-compose

Use docker compose to run the application containers:

MYSQL_PASSWORD='<some password>' docker compose up -f dist/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml

Open the frontend in a browser window:

http://localhost:8888

To stop the containers in docker compose use Ctrl+C. To delete all the containers and related resources run:

docker compose -f dist/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml down

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT-0 License.

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