Cryptocurrency Microservice

This repository contains a simple microservice in Go which accesses the api.hitbtc.com API server to obtain prices from various cryptocurrencies. This repository also contains instructions for deploying this microservice in a local Kubernetes cluster using the Kind utility.

Development environment

Prerequisites

To build this microservice, the following tools must be installed in your development environment.

• Go 1.16
• GNU make
• Docker
• Kind, https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ , for local Kubernetes testing
• kubectl, for interacting with Kubernetes cluster

Preparing environment

To obtain golint and staticcheck:

make get-gotools

Building Microservice locally

To build the microservice locally:

make build

Building Docker image

To build the Docker image, named craigcryptoapp:main containing the microservice:

make image

Run in Kubernetes

After building the Docker image

cd ./k8s

and read these instructions to run on Kubernetes

Running tests

After deploying in Kubernetes, run the following to run tests:

make test