Kubernetes_Service.md

Running in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Prerequisites

To build and run the sample, you must have the done the following:

• Obtain this repository's contents, either use git or just download the samples as a ZIP
• Install the IBM Cloud CLI
• Install the Kubernetes CLI
• Provision an Event Streams Service Instance in IBM Cloud®
• Provision a Kubernetes Service instance in IBM Cloud®

Deploy the Application

1. From the Event Streams for IBM Cloud instance dashboard, click Service Credentials and select or create a new one. Copy its content, create a file credentials.json and paste the content.

2. To deploy the application you first need to bind the Event Streams for IBM Cloud service instance to the cluster. Create a secret using the content from the file credentials.json

   kubectl create secret generic eventstreams-binding --from-file=binding=credentials.json

   The command above creates a secret in your cluster named eventstreams-binding.

3. Configure the CLI to run kubectl

4. Deploy the application in the cluster:

   kubectl apply -f kafka-java-liberty-sample.yaml

5. Access the application:

   kubectl wait pod kafka-java-liberty-sample --for=condition=Ready
   kubectl port-forward kafka-java-liberty-sample 9080:9080

   Point your browser to http://localhost:9080

Further references

If you want find out more about IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service or Kubernetes then check the following documents:

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes Documentation