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Development Guide

This document describes how to develop and add features to the Bank of Anthos application in your local environment.

Prerequisites

  1. A GCP project, connected to your billing account.
  2. A GKE cluster in your project. We recommend 4 nodes, machine type: e2-standard-4.

Install Tools

You can use MacOS or Linux as your dev environment - all these languages and tools support both.

  1. Docker Desktop
  2. kubectl (can be installed separately or via gcloud)
  3. skaffold 1.27+ (latest version recommended)
  4. JDK 14 (newer versions might cause issues)
  5. Maven 3.6 (newer versions might cause issues)
  6. Python3
  7. piptools

Adding External Packages

Python

If you're adding a new feature that requires a new external Python package in one or more services (frontend, contacts, userservice), you must regenerate the requirements.txt file using piptools. This is what the Python Dockerfiles use to install external packages inside the containers.

To add a package:

  1. Add the package name to requirements.in within the src/<service> directory:

  2. From inside that directory, run:

python3 -m pip install pip-tools
python3 -m piptools compile --output-file=requirements.txt requirements.in
  1. Re-run skaffold dev or skaffold run to trigger a Docker build using the updated requirements.txt.

Java

If you're adding a new feature to one or more of the Java services (ledgerwriter, transactionhistory, balancereader) and require a new third-party package, do the following:

  1. Add the package to the pom.xml file in the src/<service> directory, under <dependencies>. You can find specific package info in Maven Central (example). Example:
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        </dependency>
  1. Re-run skaffold dev or skaffold run to trigger a Jib container build using Maven and the updated pom file.

Generating your own JWT public key.

The extras directory provides the RSA key/pair secret used for demos. To create your own:

openssl genrsa -out jwtRS256.key 4096
openssl rsa -in jwtRS256.key -outform PEM -pubout -out jwtRS256.key.pub
kubectl create secret generic jwt-key --from-file=./jwtRS256.key --from-file=./jwtRS256.key.pub

Testing your changes locally

We recommend you test and build directly on Kubernetes, from your local environment. This is because there are seven services and for the app to fully function, all the services need to be running. All the services have dependencies, environment variables, and secrets and that are built into the Kubernetes environment / manifests, so testing directly on Kubernetes is the fastest way to see your code changes in action.

You can use the skaffold tool to build and deploy your code to the GKE cluster in your project.

Make sure that you export PROJECT_ID as an environment variable (or add to your .bashrc before running either of these commands)

Option 1 - Build and deploy continuously

The skaffold dev command watches your local code, and continuously builds and deploys container images to your GKE cluster anytime you save a file. Skaffold uses Docker Desktop to build the Python images, then Jib (installed via Maven) to build the Java images.

skaffold dev --default-repo=gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/bank-of-anthos

Option 2 - Build and deploy once

The skaffold run command build and deploys the services to your GKE cluster one time, then exits.

skaffold run --default-repo=gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/bank-of-anthos

Running services selectively

Skaffold reads the skaffold.yaml file to understand the project setup. Here, it's split into modules that can be iterated on individually:

  • the backend module comprising of the five backend services.
  • the frontend module for the single frontend service.
  • the loadbalancer module for the single loadbalancer service.

To work with only the frontend module, run:

skaffold dev --default-repo=gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/bank-of-anthos -m frontend

To work with both frontend and backend modules, run:

skaffold dev --default-repo=gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/bank-of-anthos -m frontend -m backend

Continuous Integration

When you're ready to create a Pull Request for your branch, you will notice that the Github Actions CI workflows run on your branch. This includes both code and deploy tests into a separate GKE cluster owned by the maintainers. The GitHub Actions CI workflows are described here.