Powerplant Controller Service

This repository contains the controller microservice.

Testcontainers

This project uses Testcontainers to test certain functionalities. To execute the tests a Docker environment must be provided for these tests to run.

Environment variables

The application requires the following environment variables:

Name	Description
KAFKA_BROKER	IP address of Kafka Broker
KAFKA_BROKER_PORT	Port number of Kafka Broker
KAFKA_GROUP_ID	Group id of controller service (default in Docker container: controller)
KAFKA_POWERPLANT_CONTROL_TOPIC	Topic for powerplant commands (default in Docker container: powerplant
KAFKA_POWERPLANT_TOPIC	Topic of powerplant status updates (default in Docker container: backend)

Run using Docker

Step 1:

Build the Docker image:

mvn package
docker build -t kwkmdo-controller .

Step 2:

Execute the Docker container with required ENV variables:

docker run \
  -p 8080:8080\
  -e KAFKA_BROKER=<broker_ip_address> \
  -e KAFKA_BROKER_PORT=<broker_port> \
  kwkmdo-controller