This scenario shows how Istio can be used to control route based on some simple rules.
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Steps
Simple Routing
Modify Recommendation source code
IMPORTANT: Do not attempt to edit the files or run any command before the Terminal cursor becomes available.
We can experiment with Istio routing rules by making a change to RecommendationsController.java.
Open /recommendation/java/vertx/src/main/java/com/redhat/developer/demos/recommendation/RecommendationVerticle.java in the editor. Now make the following modification.
private static final String RESPONSE_STRING_FORMAT = "recommendation v2 from '%s': %d\n";
Note: The file is saved automatically.
Now go to the recommendations folder cd ~/projects/istio-tutorial/recommendation/java/vertx
Make sure that the file has changed: git diff.
Compile the project with the modifications that you did.
mvn package
Create the recommendation:v2 docker image.
We will now create a new image using v2. The v2tag during the docker build is significant.
Execute docker build -t example/recommendation:v2 .
You can check the image that was create by typing docker images | grep recommendation
Create a second deployment with sidecar proxy
There is also a 2nd deployment.yml file to label things correctly
Execute: oc apply -f <(istioctl kube-inject -f ../../kubernetes/Deployment-v2.yml) -n tutorial
To watch the creation of the pods, execute oc get pods -w
Once that the recommendation pod READY column is 2/2, you can hit CTRL+C.
Test the customer endpoint: curl http://customer-tutorial.[[HOST_SUBDOMAIN]]-80-[[KATACODA_HOST]].environments.katacoda.com
You likely see "customer => preference => recommendation v2 from '2819441432-5v22s': 1" as by default you get round-robin load-balancing when there is more than one Pod behind a Service.
You likely see "customer => preference => recommendation v1 from '99634814-d2z2t': 3", where '99634814-d2z2t' is the pod running v1 and the 3 is basically the number of times you hit the endpoint.
Send several requests on Terminal 2 to see their responses
while true; do curl http://customer-tutorial.[[HOST_SUBDOMAIN]]-80-[[KATACODA_HOST]].environments.katacoda.com; sleep .5; done
The default Kubernetes/OpenShift behavior is to round-robin load-balance across all available pods behind a single Service. Add another replica of recommendations-v2 Deployment.
oc scale --replicas=2 deployment/recommendation-v2
Wait the second recommendation:v2 pod to become available, execute oc get pods -w
Once that the recommendation pod READY column is 2/2, you can hit CTRL+C.
Make sure that the following command is running on Terminal 2 while true; do curl http://customer-tutorial.[[HOST_SUBDOMAIN]]-80-[[KATACODA_HOST]].environments.katacoda.com; sleep .5; done
You will see two requests for v2 for each one of v1.
Scale back to a single replica of the recommendation-v2 deployment:
oc scale --replicas=1 deployment/recommendation-v2
On Terminal 2, you will see requests being round-robin balanced between v1 and v2.
