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06-Cart

Cart is a microservice that is responsible for Cart Service in RobotShop e-commerce portal.

Hint

Developer has chosen NodeJs, Check with developer which version of NodeJS is needed.

Install NodeJS, By default NodeJS 10 is available, We would like to enable 18 version and install list.

Hint

You can list modules by using dnf module list

dnf module disable nodejs -y
dnf module enable nodejs:18 -y

Install NodeJS

dnf install nodejs -y

Configure the application. Here

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Our application developed by the own developer is not having any RPM software just like other softwares. So we need to configure every step manually

Recap

We already discussed in Linux basics section that applications should run as nonroot user.

Add application User

useradd roboshop
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User roboshop is a function / daemon user to run the application. Apart from that we dont use this user to login to server.

Also, username roboshop has been picked because it more suits to our project name.

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We keep application in one standard location. This is a usual practice that runs in the organization.

Lets setup an app directory.

mkdir /app 

Download the application code to created app directory.

curl -L -o /tmp/cart.zip https://roboshop-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/cart.zip 
cd /app
unzip /tmp/cart.zip

Every application is developed by development team will have some common softwares that they use as libraries. This application also have the same way of defined dependencies in the application configuration.

Lets download the dependencies.

cd /app 
npm install

We need to setup a new service in systemd so systemctl can manage this service

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We already discussed in linux basics that advantages of systemctl managing services, Hence we are taking that approach. Which is also a standard way in the OS.

Setup SystemD Cart Service

/etc/systemd/system/cart.service
[Unit]
Description = Cart Service
[Service]
User=roboshop
Environment=REDIS_HOST=<REDIS-SERVER-IP>
Environment=CATALOGUE_HOST=<CATALOGUE-SERVER-IP>
Environment=CATALOGUE_PORT=8080
ExecStart=/bin/node /app/server.js
SyslogIdentifier=cart

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
RECAP

You can create file by using vim /etc/systemd/system/cart.service

Load the service.

systemctl daemon-reload
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This above command is because we added a new service, We are telling systemd to reload so it will detect new service.

Start the service.

systemctl enable cart 
systemctl start cart