Deploy a sidecar in Kubernetes

This project demonstrate the deployment of a sidecar in Kubernetes. A main container and a sidecar is deployed together in one pod. The pod with the 2 containers work as one unit.

Requirements

• docker
• minikube
• kubectl

How to use this repo?

• Clone this repo
• Run ./gen_go_lib.sh. It will generate the necessary go code from the proto file and install the dependencies
• Run ./build_images.sh. It will build the client and server image and publish it in minikube. So that minikube can resolve the image from locally.
• Run ./deploy.sh. It will create a deployment and a service in minikube
• To get the service url and port, run

minikube service sidecar-deployment-service --url

The name sidecar-deployment-service is defined in k8s/deployment.yml file.

• Use the url and port from Postman or gRPC-cli to talk to the client
• After having fun, you can kill the deployment by

kubectl delete deployments sidecar-deployment

The name sidecar-deployment is defined in k8s/deployment.yml file.