In today's tech world, applications need to be scalable, reliable, and easy to manage. Kubernetes provides the necessary tools to achieve these goals, allowing businesses to deploy applications faster, manage them more efficiently, and reduce downtime. Kubernetes is a game-changer for modern software development and operations.

Before we begin with the Project, we need to make sure we have the following prerequisites installed:

EC2 (AMI-Ubuntu, 2-instances (CI-t3.micro) (Deployment-t3.large))
Docker
Minikube
kubectl

You can install all this by doing the below steps one by one. and these steps are for Ubuntu AMI.

# Steps:-

# For Docker Installation (for CI Instance)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker.io -y
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER && newgrp docker

# For Minikube & Kubectl (for Deployment Instance)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker.io -y
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER && newgrp docker

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube 

sudo snap install kubectl --classic
minikube start --driver=docker

Step 1: Clone the source code (CI-Instance)

The first step is to clone the source code for the app. You can do this by using this command.

  git clone https://github.com/LondheShubham153/reddit-clone-k8s-ingress.git

2 . Write a Dockerfile with the following code:


FROM node:19-alpine3.15

WORKDIR /reddit-clone

COPY . /reddit-clone

RUN npm install 

EXPOSE 3000

CMD ["npm","run","dev"]

Step 2: Building Docker-Image

Now it's time to build Docker Image from this Dockerfile.

# to build docker image
docker build -t <DockerHub_Username>/<Imagename>

Step 3: Push the Image To DockerHub

To push the image to Dockerhub. We want to login to your DockerHub account using a command.Then use for pushing command to the push image to the DockerHub.

# to login with dockerhub
docker login

# to push docker image to dockerhub
docker push <DockerHub_Username>/<Imagename>

Step 4: Write Deployment.yml file (in deployment instance)

Let's Create a Deployment File For our Application. Use the following code for the deployment.yml file.

# to create and view the deployment.yml file
vi deployment.yml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: reddit-clone-deployment
  labels:
    app: reddit-clone
spec:
  replicas: 4
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: reddit-clone
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: reddit-clone
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: reddit-clone
        image: yashisrani05/reddit-clone
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3000

Write Service.yml file

# to create and view service.yml file
vi service.yml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: reddit-clone-service
  labels:
    app: reddit-clone
spec:
  type: NodePort
  ports:
  - port: 3000
    targetPort: 3000
    nodePort: 31000
  selector:
    app: reddit-clone

Step 5: Deploy the app to Kubernetes & Create a Service For It.

To deploy the app you need to run following the command :

# to deploy deployment.yml file
kubectl apply -f deployment.yml

# to deploy service.yml file
kubectl apply -f service.yml

If You want to check your deployment & Service use the command:

# to check deployment
kubectl get deployment

#to check service
kubectl get services

Step 8) Expose the app

First We need to expose our deployment. so use below command:

kubectl expose deployment reddit-clone-deployment --type=NodePort

You can test your deployment, use below command:

curl -L http://<public-IP>:3000

Then We have to expose our app service.

kubectl port-forward svc/reddit-clone-service 3000:3000 --address 0.0.0.0 &

In this way , we can deploy reddit clone to kubernetes

Deployed a Reddit Clone on Kubernetes 🚀👨🏻‍💻