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Creating a RESTful Service

This sample demonstrates creating a simple RESTful service. The exposed endpoint takes a stock ticker (i.e. stock symbol), then outputs the stock price. The endpoint resource name is defined by an environment variable set in the configuration file.

Prerequisites

  1. A Kubernetes cluster with Knative Serving installed.
  2. Install Docker.
  3. You need to configure outbound network access because this application makes an external API request.
  4. Check out the code:
go get -d github.com/knative/docs/serving/samples/rest-api-go

Setup

Build the application container and publish it to a container registry:

  1. Move into the sample directory:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/knative/docs
  1. Set your preferred container registry:
export REPO="gcr.io/<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>"

To run the sample, you need to have a Google Cloud Platform project, and you also need to enable the Google Container Registry API.

  1. Use Docker to build your application container:
docker build \
  --tag "${REPO}/serving/samples/rest-api-go" \
  --file serving/samples/rest-api-go/Dockerfile .
  1. Push your container to a container registry:
docker push "${REPO}/serving/samples/rest-api-go"

  1. Replace the image reference path with our published image path in the configuration files (serving/samples/rest-api-go/sample.yaml:

    • Manually replace:
      image: github.com/knative/docs/serving/samples/rest-api-go with image: <YOUR_CONTAINER_REGISTRY>/serving/samples/rest-api-go

    Or

    • Use run this command:
    perl -pi -e "[email protected]/knative/docs@${REPO}@g" serving/samples/rest-api-go/sample.yaml

Deploy the Configuration

Deploy the Knative Serving sample:

kubectl apply --filename serving/samples/rest-api-go/sample.yaml

Explore the Configuration

Inspect the created resources with the kubectl commands:

  • View the created Route resource:
kubectl get route --output yaml
  • View the created Configuration resource:
kubectl get configurations --output yaml
  • View the Revision that was created by our Configuration:
kubectl get revisions --output yaml

Access the Service

To access this service via curl, you need to determine its ingress address.

  1. To determine if your service is ready:
kubectl get svc knative-ingressgateway --namespace istio-system --watch

When the service is ready, you'll see an IP address in the EXTERNAL-IP field:

NAME                     TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)                                      AGE
knative-ingressgateway   LoadBalancer   10.23.247.74   35.203.155.229   80:32380/TCP,443:32390/TCP,32400:32400/TCP   2d
  1. When the service is ready, export the ingress hostname and IP as environment variables:
export SERVICE_HOST=`kubectl get route stock-route-example --output jsonpath="{.status.domain}"`
export SERVICE_IP=`kubectl get svc knative-ingressgateway --namespace istio-system \
--output jsonpath="{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[*].ip}"`
  • If your cluster is running outside a cloud provider (for example on Minikube), your services will never get an external IP address. In that case, use the istio hostIP and nodePort as the service IP:
export SERVICE_IP=$(kubectl get po --selector knative=ingressgateway --namespace istio-system \
  --output 'jsonpath={.items[0].status.hostIP}'):$(kubectl get svc knative-ingressgateway --namespace istio-system \
  --output 'jsonpath={.spec.ports[?(@.port==80)].nodePort}')
  1. Now use curl to make a request to the service:
  • Make a request to the index endpoint:
curl --header "Host:$SERVICE_HOST" http://${SERVICE_IP}

Response body: Welcome to the stock app!

  • Make a request to the /stock endpoint:
curl --header "Host:$SERVICE_HOST" http://${SERVICE_IP}/stock

Response body: stock ticker not found!, require /stock/{ticker}

  • Make a request to the /stock endpoint with a ticker parameter:
curl --header "Host:$SERVICE_HOST" http://${SERVICE_IP}/stock/<ticker>

Response body: stock price for ticker <ticker> is <price>

Clean Up

To clean up the sample service:

kubectl delete --filename serving/samples/rest-api-go/sample.yaml