Bob's Books

An example application based on WebLogic, Helidon, and Coherence

Before you begin

Install Verrazzano by following the installation instructions.
To download the example image, you must first accept the license agreement.
- In a browser, navigate to https://container-registry.oracle.com/ and sign in.
- Search for example-bobbys-coherence, example-bobbys-front-end, example-bobs-books-order-manager, example-roberts-coherence, and weblogic.
- For each one:
  - Select the image name in the results.
  - From the drop-down menu, select your language and click Continue.
  - Then read and accept the license agreement.
NOTE: The Bob’s Books example application deployment files are contained in the Verrazzano project located at <VERRAZZANO_HOME>/examples/bobs-books, where <VERRAZZANO_HOME> is the root of the Verrazzano project.

Overview

Bob’s Books consists of three main parts:

A back-end “order processing” application, which is a Java EE application with REST services and a very simple JSP UI, which stores data in a MySQL database. This application runs on WebLogic Server.
A front-end web store “Robert’s Books”, which is a general book seller. This is implemented as a Helidon microservice, which gets book data from Coherence, uses a Coherence cache store to persist data for the order manager, and has a React web UI.
A front-end web store “Bobby’s Books”, which is a specialty children’s book store. This is implemented as a Helidon microservice, which gets book data from a (different) Coherence cache store, interfaces directly with the order manager, and has a JSF web UI running on WebLogic Server.

For more information and the source code of this application, see the Verrazzano Examples.

Deploy the application

NOTE

To run this application in the default namespace:

$ kubectl label namespace default verrazzano-managed=true istio-injection=enabled

If you chose the default namespace, you can skip Step 1 and ignore the -n option in the rest of the commands.

Create a namespace for the example and add a label identifying the namespace as managed by Verrazzano.

$ kubectl create namespace bobs-books
$ kubectl label namespace bobs-books verrazzano-managed=true istio-injection=enabled

Create a docker-registry secret to enable pulling the example image from the registry.

$ kubectl create secret docker-registry bobs-books-repo-credentials \
        --docker-server=container-registry.oracle.com \
        --docker-username=YOUR_REGISTRY_USERNAME \
        --docker-password=YOUR_REGISTRY_PASSWORD \
        --docker-email=YOUR_REGISTRY_EMAIL \
        -n bobs-books

Replace YOUR_REGISTRY_USERNAME, YOUR_REGISTRY_PASSWORD, and YOUR_REGISTRY_EMAIL with the values you use to access the registry.

Create secrets for the WebLogic domains:

# Replace the values of the WLS_USERNAME and WLS_PASSWORD environment variables as appropriate.
$ export WLS_USERNAME=<username>
$ export WLS_PASSWORD=<password>
$ kubectl create secret generic bobbys-front-end-weblogic-credentials \
    --from-literal=password=$WLS_PASSWORD \
    --from-literal=username=$WLS_USERNAME \
    -n bobs-books

$ kubectl create secret generic bobs-bookstore-weblogic-credentials \
    --from-literal=password=$WLS_PASSWORD \
    --from-literal=username=$WLS_USERNAME \
    -n bobs-books

$ kubectl create secret generic mysql-credentials \
    --from-literal=username=$WLS_USERNAME \
    --from-literal=password=$WLS_PASSWORD \
    --from-literal=url=jdbc:mysql://mysql.bobs-books.svc.cluster.local:3306/books \
    -n bobs-books

Note that the example application is preconfigured to use specific secret names. For the source code of this application, see the Verrazzano Examples. If you want to use secret names that are different from what is specified in the source code, you will need to update the corresponding YAML file and rebuild the Docker images for the example application.

To deploy the application, apply the example resources.

$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/verrazzano/verrazzano/v1.4.8/examples/bobs-books/bobs-books-comp.yaml -n bobs-books
$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/verrazzano/verrazzano/v1.4.8/examples/bobs-books/bobs-books-app.yaml -n bobs-books

Wait for all of the pods in the Bob’s Books example application to be ready. You can monitor their progress by listing the pods and inspecting the output, or you can use the kubectl wait command.

You may need to repeat the kubectl wait command several times before it is successful. The WebLogic Server and Coherence pods may take a while to be created and Ready.
```
$ kubectl get pods -n bobs-books

# -or- #

$ kubectl wait \
    --for=condition=Ready pods \
    --all -n bobs-books \
    --timeout=600s
```

Get the EXTERNAL_IP address of the istio-ingressgateway service.

$ ADDRESS=$(kubectl get service \
    -n istio-system istio-ingressgateway \
    -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
$ echo $ADDRESS

# Sample output
11.22.33.44

Get the generated host name for the application.

$ HOST=$(kubectl get gateways.networking.istio.io bobs-books-bobs-books-gw \
    -n bobs-books \
    -o jsonpath='{.spec.servers[0].hosts[0]}')
$ echo $HOST

# Sample output
bobs-books.bobs-books.11.22.33.44.nip.io

Access the application. To access the application in a browser, you will need to do one of the following:
- Option 1: If you are using nip.io, then you can access the application using the generated host name. For example:
  - Robert’s Books UI at https://bobs-books.bobs-books.11.22.33.44.nip.io/.
  - Bobby’s Books UI at https://bobs-books.bobs-books.11.22.33.44.nip.io/bobbys-front-end/.
  - Bob’s order manager UI at https://bobs-books.bobs-books.11.22.33.44.nip.io/bobs-bookstore-order-manager/orders.
- Option 2: Temporarily, modify the /etc/hosts file (on Mac or Linux) or c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file (on Windows 10), to add an entry mapping the host used by the application to the external IP address assigned to your gateway. For example:
```
11.22.33.44 bobs-books.example.com
```
  Then, you can use a browser to access the application, as shown:
  - Robert’s Books UI at https://bobs-books.example.com/.
  - Bobby’s Books UI at https://bobs-books.example.com/bobbys-front-end/.
  - Bob’s order manager UI at https://bobs-books.example.com/bobs-bookstore-order-manager/orders.
- Option 3: Alternatively, point your own DNS name to the load balancer’s external IP address. In this case, you would need to have edited the bobs-books-app.yaml file to use the appropriate values under the hosts section for the application (such as your-roberts-books-host.your.domain), before deploying the application. Then, you can use a browser to access the application, as shown:
  - Robert’s Books UI at https://<your-roberts-books-host.your.domain>/.
  - Bobby’s Books UI at https://<your-bobbys-books-host.your.domain>/bobbys-front-end/.
  - Bob’s order manager UI at https://<your-bobs-orders-host.your.domain>/.

Access the applications using the WebLogic Server Administration Console

Use the WebLogic Server Administration Console to access the applications as follows.

NOTE

It is recommended that the WebLogic Server Administration Console not be exposed publicly.

Access bobs-bookstore

Set up port forwarding.
```
$ kubectl port-forward pods/bobs-bookstore-adminserver 7001:7001 -n bobs-books
```
NOTE: If you are using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Shell to run kubectl, in order to access the WebLogic Server Administration Console using port forwarding, you will need to run kubectl on another machine.
Access the WebLogic Server Administration Console from your browser.
```
http://localhost:7001/console
```

Access bobbys-front-end

Set up port forwarding.
```
$ kubectl port-forward pods/bobbys-front-end-adminserver 7001:7001 -n bobs-books
```
NOTE: If you are using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Shell to run kubectl, in order to access the WebLogic Server Administration Console using port forwarding, you will need to run kubectl on another machine.
Access the WebLogic Server Administration Console from your browser.
```
http://localhost:7001/console
```

Verify the deployed application

Verify that the application configuration, domains, Coherence resources, and ingress trait all exist.

$ kubectl get ApplicationConfiguration -n bobs-books
$ kubectl get Domain -n bobs-books
$ kubectl get Coherence -n bobs-books
$ kubectl get IngressTrait -n bobs-books

Verify that the service pods are successfully created and transition to the READY state. Note that this may take a few minutes and that you may see some of the services terminate and restart.

$ kubectl get pods -n bobs-books

# Sample output
NAME                                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
bobbys-helidon-stock-application-868b5965c8-dk2xb   3/3     Running   0          19h
bobbys-coherence-0                                  2/2     Running   0          19h
bobbys-front-end-adminserver                        3/3     Running   0          19h
bobbys-front-end-managed-server1                    3/3     Running   0          19h
bobs-bookstore-adminserver                          3/3     Running   0          19h
bobs-bookstore-managed-server1                      3/3     Running   0          19h
mysql-669665fb54-9m8wq                              2/2     Running   0          19h
robert-helidon-96997fcd5-kzjkf                      3/3     Running   0          19h
robert-helidon-96997fcd5-nlswm                      3/3     Running   0          19h
roberts-coherence-0                                 2/2     Running   0          17h
roberts-coherence-1                                 2/2     Running   0          17h

Undeploy the application

To undeploy the application, delete the Bob’s Books OAM resources.

$ kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/verrazzano/verrazzano/v1.4.8/examples/bobs-books/bobs-books-app.yaml -n bobs-books
$ kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/verrazzano/verrazzano/v1.4.8/examples/bobs-books/bobs-books-comp.yaml -n bobs-books

Delete the namespace bobs-books after the application pods are terminated. The secrets created for the WebLogic domain also will be deleted.
```
$ kubectl delete namespace bobs-books
```

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