Car Branding Cloud Exercise

• Using Azure Cloud (Functions, APIM, Storage & WebApp service)
• Pulumi as IaC (uses terraform internally)
• WebApp based on Next.ts (node.js server framework for React)
• Functions are typescript
• APIM is proxy-like (takes care of function api keys)

Setup

First thing to do is:

(Easiest) either login into azure using azure CLI

az login

or set ARM env vars

ARM_CLIENT_ID: 
ARM_TENANT_ID: 
ARM_CLIENT_SECRET: 
ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: 

After you can just hit

# builds code & runs/updates infra into dev stack (first time will ask to login into pulumi & create the dev stack)
make up-dev

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NOTE: creating APIM resource takes up to 40m-60m alone. This is not IaC bug but how azure takes to make this resource active.

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After that you should receive an output var webAppEndpoint. The first request takes a while, because of the cold-start.

Run locally

As far as I can tell there is no APIM emulator/local (Functions has development kit). So you have to have the infra up and running to develop.

Just go to src/web-app:

• touch .env
  • APIM_ENDPOINT=<this value is also outputed from pulumi or just go to portal and get it>
  • APIM_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY=<this value is considered a secret and is not outputed, check it from portal>
• hit yarn && yarn dev

Notes

• No CI/CD (this however is extremely easy with IaC)
• No authentication/authorization (could have use ADD/Okta/Auth0 and then add policies to APIM easily)
• No tests (since not asked and time was short)
• Code is kinda Quick & Dirty, just focused more on IaC itself (since product spec was so easy I assumed that)
• Was fun to try pulumi - was on my todo list! :)