About

This project is a simple CI/CD pipeline to deploy a containerised FastAPI project.

Threat Model for the System

A simple threat model has been developed and can ne accessed here

Components

1. REST API framework - FastAPI
2. Backend - Cloud Firestore
3. Container Engine - Docker
4. Version control - GitHub
5. Package manager - poetry (optional for local development in a virtual environment)
6. IaC - Terraform
7. CI/CD - Github Actions
   • creates datastore
   • builds and publish image to Artifact repository
   • deploys application containers management service
   • picks up and deploys changes in /api and /infrastructure folders
8. Managed Container Service - CloudRun or GKE
9. Kubernetes deployment using kustomize

Architecture diagram

Local setup using docker

1. Clone the repository and cd in to the project folder git clone https://github.com/baldcodr/api-store.git && cd api-store

2. Ensure you have docker running and run the following command make build

3. The appplication should be available on 0.0.0.0/8000

Local setup using poetry

1. Ensure you have poetry installed, otherwise run the following command pip install poetry or brew install poetry

2. Activate the poetry virtual environment poetry shell

3. Install dependencies poetry install

4. The appplication should be available on 0.0.0.0/8000

NB: If developing locally, add the follwoing line to your firebase.py file from dotenv import load_dotenv load_dotenv()