3-local-development.md

Problem 3 : Local development

Our developers are building a (micro)-service, that we will deploy on our kubernetes cluster. For local development, we want the environment to be reproducible and containerized too.

Starting point

You may assume that every developer :

• has a working operating system.
• may or may not have Docker (for Mac) installed.
• should not install anything else than docker.

Requirements

You can have a look in the project directory of the example project, to see how the project is set up:

• a php backend in the server directory
• a javascript frontend (in the client directory), which needs nodejs and npm during development, but can be served statically on production

Next to that, the lead developer also asks for :

• a webserver, to route all trafic for the api (/api) to the backend
• the php-imagick extension
• composer (in development, but later also in build environments)
• mysql 5.6
• redis

Some nice to haves :

• route all trafic to https (definitely on production)
• the ability to run phpunit tests inside a container
• the ability to debug with xdebug inside the backend container

Deliverables

• a docker-compose.yml file for the local development environment
• the necessary Dockerfiles for the images you needed to create yourself
• documentation on how to run the project locally
• if you implemented nice to haves: some documentation about it
• a list of possible improvements to the application regarding containerization for the lead developer
  (or you can make necessary changes yourself)

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