Deploying a Spring Boot Application on a Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Cluster on GCP

I have been "cf pushing" for as long as I can remember so with Pivotal Container Service (PKS) let's walk through the process of deploying a basic Spring Boot Application with a PKS cluster running on GCP.

Few assumptions:

1. PKS is already installed as shown by my Operations Manager UI below

2. A PKS Cluster already exists as shown by the command below

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks list-clusters

Name        Plan Name  UUID                                  Status     Action
my-cluster  small      1230fafb-b5a5-4f9f-9327-55f0b8254906  succeeded  CREATE

Example:

We will be using this Spring Boot application at the following GitHub URL

  https://github.com/papicella/springboot-actuator-2-demo

1. In this example my Spring Boot application has what is required within my maven build.xml file to allow me to create a Docker image as shown below

  
<!-- tag::plugin[] -->
   <plugin>
    <groupId>com.spotify</groupId>
    <artifactId>dockerfile-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.6</version>
    <configuration>
     <repository>${docker.image.prefix}/${project.artifactId}</repository>
     <buildArgs>
      <JAR_FILE>target/${project.build.finalName}.jar</JAR_FILE>
     </buildArgs>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
   <!-- end::plugin[] -->

   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <id>unpack</id>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>unpack</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
       <artifactItems>
        <artifactItem>
         <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
         <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
         <version>${project.version}</version>
        </artifactItem>
       </artifactItems>
      </configuration>
     </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

2. Once a docker image was built I then pushed that to Docker Hub as shown below

3. Now we will need a PKS cluster as shown below before we can continue

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks cluster my-cluster

Name:                     my-cluster
Plan Name:                small
UUID:                     1230fafb-b5a5-4f9f-9327-55f0b8254906
Last Action:              CREATE
Last Action State:        succeeded
Last Action Description:  Instance provisioning completed
Kubernetes Master Host:   cluster1.pks.pas-apples.online
Kubernetes Master Port:   8443
Worker Instances:         3
Kubernetes Master IP(s):  192.168.20.10

4. Now we want to wire "kubectl" using a command as follows

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ pks get-credentials my-cluster

Fetching credentials for cluster my-cluster.
Context set for cluster my-cluster.

You can now switch between clusters by using:
$kubectl config use-context

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at https://cluster1.pks.pas-apples.online:8443
Heapster is running at https://cluster1.pks.pas-apples.online:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/heapster/proxy
KubeDNS is running at https://cluster1.pks.pas-apples.online:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns/proxy
monitoring-influxdb is running at https://cluster1.pks.pas-apples.online:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/monitoring-influxdb/proxy

To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.

5. Now we are ready to deploy a Spring Boot workload to our cluster. To do that lets download the YAML file below

https://github.com/papicella/springboot-actuator-2-demo/blob/master/lb-withspringboot.yml

Once downloaded create a deployment as follows

$ kubectl create -f lb-withspringboot.yml

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ kubectl create -f lb-withspringboot.yml
service "spring-boot-service" created
deployment "spring-boot-deployment" created

6. Now let’s verify our deployment using some kubectl commands as follows

$ kubectl get deployment spring-boot-deployment
$ kubectl get pods
$ kubectl get svc

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ kubectl get deployment spring-boot-deployment

NAME                     DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE

spring-boot-deployment   1         1         1            1           1m

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ kubectl get pods

NAME                                     READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE

spring-boot-deployment-ccd947455-6clwv   1/1       Running   0          2m

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ kubectl get svc

NAME                  TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)          AGE

kubernetes            ClusterIP      10.100.200.1               443/TCP          23m

spring-boot-service   LoadBalancer   10.100.200.137   35.197.187.43   8080:31408/TCP   2m

7. Using the external IP Address we got GCP to expose for us we can access our Spring Boot application on port 8080 as shown below using the external IP address. In this example

http://35.197.187.43:8080/

RESTful End Point

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ http http://35.197.187.43:8080/employees/1
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/hal+json;charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 05:26:19 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{
    "_links": {
        "employee": {
            "href": "http://35.197.187.43:8080/employees/1"
        },
        "self": {
            "href": "http://35.197.187.43:8080/employees/1"
        }
    },
    "name": "pas"
}

More Information

Using PKS
https://docs.pivotal.io/runtimes/pks/1-0/using.html