Table of Contents

1. Challenge

   Start the Minikube Cluster Using the Correct Driver

   Issue the command to start Minikube:

   sudo minikube start --vm-driver none
   

2. Challenge

   Create the Ghost Blog Deployment and Verify That It Has Deployed Correctly

   Create the blog deployment using the ~/ghost-deploy-template.yaml. Our YAML should look something like this when we're done:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Service
   metadata:
       name: blog
       labels:
         app: gblog
   spec:
       type: NodePort
       selector:
         app: gblog
       ports:
           - nodePort: 30005
             port: 80
             targetPort: 2368
   ---
   apiVersion: v1
   kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
   metadata:
     name: blog-stor
     labels:
       app: gblog
   spec:
     accessModes:
       - ReadWriteOnce
     resources:
       requests:
         storage: 3Gi
   ---
   apiVersion: apps/v1
   kind: Deployment
   metadata:
     name: gblog
     labels:
       app: gblog
   spec:
     selector:
       matchLabels:
         app: gblog
     strategy:
       type: Recreate
     template:
       metadata:
         labels:
           app: gblog
       spec:
         containers:
             - name: blog-cont
               image: ghost:2.6-alpine
               ports:
               - containerPort: 2368
               volumeMounts:
               - name: blog-vol
                 mountPath: "/var/lib/ghost/content"
         volumes:
         - name: blog-vol
           persistentVolumeClaim:
             claimName: blog-stor
   

   Now we can create the deployment:

   sudo kubectl create -f ~/ghost-deploy-template.yaml
   

   Verify that it is up and running:

   sudo kubectl get pv
   sudo kubectl get pvc
   sudo kubectl get po
   

3. Challenge

   Configure the Proxy to Forward the Blog and Verify It Loads

   Get the node port address, which will be the TARGET_PORT of blog in the output of this command:

   sudo minikube service list
   

   Now we can configure Nginx to proxy to the blog service. Edit the file:

   sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
   

   Around line 50, we need to stick our Minikub IP and port in the location section remove this line

    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
   

   and replace it with the ip and port from the services command so it looks like this

   location / {
           # First attempt to serve request as file, then
           # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
           proxy_pass http://MINIKUB_IP:PORT;
       }
   

   Now let's restart Nginx to implement the new configuration:

   sudo systemctl restart nginx