Noob

A scalable distributed microservice architecture platform running on Kubernetes capable of judging and orchestrating the execution of user submitted code.

WIP Demo Video

Roadmap

• Set up Kubernetes Cluster.
  • Set up rook helm chart for persistent volumes. (✅ 8/5/18)
    • ^ decided to do this w/o Helm.
  • Set up redis helm chart for sessions. (✅ 8/5/18)
  • Set up mongodb helm chart. (✅ 8/5/18)
  • Se up rabbitmq helm chart for code execution queue.
• Set up auth microservice.
  • Add Dockerfile. (✅ 8/10/18)
  • Integrate into Kubernetes/Helm:
    • Create deployment. (✅ 8/11/18)
    • Create service. (✅ 8/11/18)
    • Set up /auth/ with nginx ingress. (✅ 8/19/18)
  • Connect to redis. (✅ 8/12/18)
  • Connect to mongodb. (✅ 8/13/18)
  • Endpoints:
    • Login - authenticate username + password with mongodb,
 create session in redis. 
 (✅ 8/17/18)
    • Logout - destroy session in redis. (✅ 8/17/18)
    • Register - store username + hashed password in mongodb. (✅ 8/17/18)
• Set up frontend microservice.
  • Add Dockerfile. (✅ 8/28/18)
  • Integrate into Kubernetes/Helm:
    • Create deployment. (✅ 8/28/18)
    • Create service. (✅ 8/28/18)
    • Set up / with nginx ingress. (✅ 8/28/18)
  • Create mock authentication page for signing up and logging in. (✅ 8/28/18)
• Set up admin microservice.
  • Add Dockerfile. (✅ 9/5/18)
  • Integrate into Kubernetes/Helm:
    • Create deployment. (✅ 9/5/18)
    • Create service. (✅ 9/5/18)
    • Set up /admin/ nginx ingress. (✅ 9/5/18)
  • Endpoints:
    • Create Problem - store problem in mongodb (✅ 9/5/18)
    • Update Problem - update problem in mongodb (✅ 9/5/18)
    • Delete Problem - delete problem in mongodb (✅ 9/5/18)
  • Frontend UI
• next: tbd…

Development

Some commands to know :P .
Accessing MongoDB:

$ kubectl get secret noob-mongodb -o jsonpath="{.data.mongodb-root-password}" | base64 --decode
$ kubectl run -i -t --rm debug --image=ubuntu --restart=Never
$ apt-get update && apt-get install mongodb
$ mongo --host noob-mongodb --port 27017 -u root -p <PASSWORD> admin

• Changing user’s role:

db.users.findAndModify({
   query: {username: <USERNAME>},
   update: {$set: {role: <ROLE>}},
   new: true,
})

Updating Microservices:

• Entire System:

$ docker-compose build && docker-compose push
$ helm delete --purge noob
$ helm install --namespace noob --name noob ./chart/

• Single Microservice:

$ docker-compose build <microservice> && docker-compose push <microservice>
$ kubectl get pods
$ kubectl delete pod <microservice>

Personal Notes

• Helm update will mess up the redis k8s secret since the secret does not update while the redis password will. The solution to this is just do a hard delete and install when updating the entire chart. (Temp fixed)

Sidetrack

• Set up continuous integration and deployment.
  • Possibly with Google Cloud Build or Concourse?
• Make sure to have high quality documentation!
• Also test, test, test!
• Deploy to Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services. Currently running my own Kubernetes cluster on OVH vps.