Prerequisites:

• docker
• terraform
• kubectl
• google cloud sdk

Deployment steps:

1. Create docker images:

   docker build -t <image name> ./client

   docker build -t <image name> ./server

   For Google Cloud Platform the image name should be in this format:

   <region>/<container registry name>/<image name>:<image tag>

   Login to GCP:

   gcloud auth login

2. Push them to the container registry

   docker push <image name>

   For both client and server

3. (optional) Alternatively, for local deployment use docker-compose:

   docker-compose up --build

4. If there is no infrastructure set up yet in GCP run the following:

   gcloud init

   This will initialize the connection to GCP

   terraform init

   This wil initialize terraform

   Create a service account in GCP, download the JSON and save it to the ./terraform folder under account.json.

   Then assign editor rights to the service account:

   gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding <your project name> --member <service account> --role roles/editor

   Modify the config files in the ./terraform directory to reflect your project name etc. Then run this command. This will create GCP infrastructure based on the *.tf config files.

   terraform apply

   To be able to use kubectl run this:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster name created by terraform> --region=<region>

   This will get the configuration to be able to access the Kubernetes cluster via console.

5. In the ./kube directory run this for all config files:

   kubectl create -f <config file>

   This will deploy the images to Kubernetes.

6. After this, the website should be up and running. To see the external IP address run

   kubectl get service client