Fastify API Server

Bootstrapping an API Server using fastify

• pino for logging
• convict for configuration
• fastify-swagger to document the API
• prometheus for monitoring
• yargs for command line processing
• npm as the build tool .... for now

Tasks

To run the lint task, which is based on the Airbnb Style

$npm run-script lint

To build a docker image

$npm run-script docker:build

To run up the server in a docker container

$npm run-script docker-run

To start the server in local mode

$npm start

Kubernetes

The is a very simple Helm chart to deploy the service to a Kubernetes cluster

helm upgrade --install --namespace demo fastify-bootstrap helm/fastify-bootstrap --debug

We can set the certificate once we have the certmanager configured using the following. This will automatically create the specified certificates for the domain names in the certificate. It will create the TLS certs and store them in a kuberenetes secrets, which can be references by the ingress component.

kubectl apply -f helm/fastify-bootstrap/certificate.yaml

Here is another document on using the cert managet

• https://blog.n1analytics.com/free-automated-tls-certificates-on-k8s/