Overview

This project involved the containerization and deployment of an e-commerce application using Docker. Here's a visual illustration of the application architecture and how it can be deployed:

For a detailed guide on the steps taken to containerize the application, see the PROCEDURE.md file

Requirements

Make sure that you have the following installed:

• Docker

How to launch the application

Method 1 (faster)

• NOTE: This method does not require cloning of this repository

• Navigate to the launch_app folder and copy the contents of the docker-compose.yml file

• On your local machine, navigate to your desired directory and create a docker-compose.yml file, paste the contents into it and save

  touch docker-compose.yml

• Launch the application using docker compose

  docker compose up

Method 2

• NOTE: This method requires cloning of this entire repository

• Clone this repository to your local machine

  git clone https://github.com/MrMiano-DevOps/yolo.git

• Navigate to the root directory of your cloned repository

  cd yolo

• Launch the application using the docker compose command

  docker compose up

Access the application on your browser using the following URL

http://localhost:3000/

How to stop the application

• Navigate back to your terminal and press "ctrl+c"

How to remove the application completely

docker compose down

The Docker images used in this application are sourced from this repository

https://hub.docker.com/repositories/mrmiano