Goal :

The main goal of this blog post and next few upcoming blog posts are to build a simple nodejs webapp and run them in azure container service and orchestrator Kubernetes.

Assumptions:

You already know the basics of Nodejs and docker.

Prerequisite

Docker installed on the local machine. you can verify by running below command

docker --version

output will be something similar to this

Docker version 18.09.0-ce-beta1, build 78a6bdb

This will help you to get upto speed .. Docker_CheatSheet_08.09.2016_0

Follow the steps…

We are going to build a simple welcomeapp in Node JS.

Create the pakage.json

{
  "name": "welcome_app",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "welcome app Node.js on Docker",
  "author": "ManiMaran Chandrasekaran<Mani.maran@di.com>",
  "main": "server.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node server.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.16.1"
  }
}

Create the server.js

'use strict';

const express = require('express');
const PORT = 8080;
const HOST = '0.0.0.0';

// App
const app = express();
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('I am the Welcome app, used for the demo\n');
});

app.listen(PORT, HOST);
console.log(`Running on http://${HOST}:${PORT}`);

Create the .dockerfile

FROM node:carbon

# Create app directory
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY . .

EXPOSE 8080
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]

Now, its time to build the image and test our welcomeapp running in the docker container.

#List the current available images

docker images

# Build the current docker file

docker build -t mani0070/welcomeapp .

# run the docker image 

docker run -p 32432:8080 mani0070/welcomeapp

#connect to the container

curl http://localhost:32432

if you see the below message then you have successfully created a node js app running on a docker container

I am the Welcome app, used for the demo

docker ps

you will see all the container running on the host (in this case its your local machine).

docker exec -it <containerid_from_abovestep> ls /bin

you can start listing directory

All the above files are available in the following git repo

Finally….

https://github.com/mani0070/acsk8s/tree/master/welcomeapp

Keep watching the space for the next post about ACR, ACS and Kubernetes