Testing the Application

Now it’s time to test. App Mesh

To test if our ported Product Catalog App is working as expected, we’ll first exec into the frontend-node container.

export FE_POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -n prodcatalog-ns -l app=frontend-node -o jsonpath='{.items[].metadata.name}') 

kubectl -n prodcatalog-ns exec -it ${FE_POD_NAME} -c frontend-node bash

You will see a prompt from within the frontend-node container.


root@frontend-node-9d46cb55-XXX:/usr/src/app#

Test the confiuration by issuing a curl request to the virtual service prodcatalog on port 5000, simulating what would happen if code running in the same pod made a request to the prodcatalog backend:

curl -v http://prodcatalog.prodcatalog-ns.svc.cluster.local:5000/products/

Output should be similar to below. You can see that the request to backend service prodcatalog is going via envoy proxy.


*   Trying 10.100.163.192... 
* TCP_NODELAY set 
* Connected to prodcatalog.prodcatalog-ns.svc.cluster.local (10.100.xx.yyy) port 5000 (#0)     
> GET /products/ HTTP/1.1     
> Host: prodcatalog.prodcatalog-ns.svc.cluster.local:5000    
> User-Agent: curl/7.52.1    
> Accept: */*    
>     
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK    
< content-type: application/json   
< content-length: 51    
< x-amzn-trace-id: Root=1-600925c6-e2c7bec92b824ddc9969d1b5    
< access-control-allow-origin: *   
< server: envoy    
< date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:57:10 GMT   
< x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 19 
<  
{
    "products": {},
    "details": {
        "version": "1",
        "vendors": [
            "ABC.com"
        ]
    }
}
* Curl_http_done: called premature == 0  
* Connection #0 to host prodcatalog.prodcatalog-ns.svc.cluster.local left intact

Exit from the frontend-node exec bash. Now, To test the connectivity from Fargate service prodcatalog to Nodegroup service proddetail, we’ll first exec into the prodcatalog container.

export BE_POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -n prodcatalog-ns -l app=prodcatalog -o jsonpath='{.items[].metadata.name}') 

kubectl -n prodcatalog-ns exec -it ${BE_POD_NAME} -c prodcatalog bash

You will see a prompt from within the prodcatalog container.


root@prodcatalog-98f7c5f87-xxxxx:/usr/src/app#

Test the confiuration by issuing a curl request to the virtual service proddetail on port 3000, simulating what would happen if code running in the same pod made a request to the proddetail backend:

curl -v http://proddetail.prodcatalog-ns.svc.cluster.local:3000/catalogDetail

You should see the below response. You can see that the request to backend service proddetail-v1 is going via envoy proxy. You can exit now from the prodcatalog exec bash.


.....
.....
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK    
< content-type: application/json   
< content-length: 51    
< x-amzn-trace-id: Root=1-600925c6-e2c7bec92b824ddc9969d1b5    
< access-control-allow-origin: *   
< server: envoy    
< date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:57:10 GMT   
< x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 19 
....
....
{"version":"1","vendors":["ABC.com"]}

Congrats! You’ve migrated the initial architecture to provide the same functionality. Now lets expose the frontend-node to external users to access the UI using App Mesh Virtual Gateway.