Red Hat Airline is a fictional airline build to demonstrate cool technology for airlines and the transportation sector.

It is made up of microservices written in Typescript, containerized and deployed on Openshift. It also runs on OpenShift Serverless using knative, with these instructions

The front-end used Typescript and Vue.js, including components to visualize information in a meaningful way to airline management

It uses a suprisingly small amount of code to accomplish a lot, deployed on a platform that provides reliability and scalability

It was developed using VS Code, and is entirely open source

Schedule View:

Live Map:

Flight Drill-Down:

Search for Flights, Airports, Crewmembers:

Running Locally:

 npm run start

Deploying application and services to OpenShift

Step 1 - login to the OpenShift cluster

oc login -u <USERNAME> -p <PASSWORD> --server=https://CLUSTER_API_DNS:6443

Step 2 - create an OpenShift project

oc new-project redhat-airline

Step 3 - deploy the api services

oc new-app \
  -n redhat-airline \
  --name=redhat-airline-flight-api nodejs:latest~https://github.com/vincent-tsugranes/redhat-airline-flight-api.git \
  -e PORT=8080 \
  -l app=redhat-airline

oc new-app \
  -n redhat-airline \
  --name=redhat-airline-crewmember-api nodejs:latest~https://github.com/vincent-tsugranes/redhat-airline-crewmember-api.git \
  -e PORT=8080 \
  -l app=redhat-airline

oc new-app \
  -n redhat-airline \
  --name=redhat-airline-airport-api nodejs:latest~https://github.com/vincent-tsugranes/redhat-airline-airport-api.git \
  -e PORT=8080 \
  -l app=redhat-airline

oc new-app \
  -n redhat-airline \
  --name=redhat-airline-cargo-api nodejs:latest~https://github.com/vincent-tsugranes/redhat-airline-cargo-api.git \
  -e PORT=8080 \
  -l app=redhat-airline

Step 4 - expose those services so the client can call them

oc expose service/redhat-airline-flight-api
oc expose service/redhat-airline-crewmember-api
oc expose service/redhat-airline-airport-api
oc expose service/redhat-airline-cargo-api

Step 5 - Deploy and expose the web page

if the services are deployed as typical OpenShift pods:

oc new-app \
  -n redhat-airline \
  --name=redhat-airline-ui nodejs:latest~https://github.com/vincent-tsugranes/redhat-airline-ui.git \
  -e VUE_APP_FLIGHT_API_URL=http://$(oc get route redhat-airline-flight-api -o json | jq -r '.spec.host') \
  -e VUE_APP_CREWMEMBER_API_URL=http://$(oc get route redhat-airline-crewmember-api -o json | jq -r '.spec.host') \
  -e VUE_APP_AIRPORT_API_URL=http://$(oc get route redhat-airline-airport-api -o json | jq -r '.spec.host') \
  -e VUE_APP_CARGO_API_URL=http://$(oc get route redhat-airline-cargo-api -o json | jq -r '.spec.host') \
  -l app=redhat-airline

oc expose service/redhat-airline-ui

Step 6 - label and annotate everything so it looks nice in the openshift topology view

oc label deployment -l app=redhat-airline app.kubernetes.io/name=nodejs

oc annotate deployment/redhat-airline-ui app.openshift.io/connects-to='[{"apiVersion":"apps/v1","kind":"Deployment","name":"redhat-airline-flight-api"},{"apiVersion":"apps/v1","kind":"Deployment","name":"redhat-airline-airport-api"},{"apiVersion":"apps/v1","kind":"Deployment","name":"redhat-airline-cargo-api"},{"apiVersion":"apps/v1","kind":"Deployment","name":"redhat-airline-crewmember-api"}]'

Developer notes:

You can run these Node.js services locally without setting and environment variables. They default to ports 9001 and up when running on local host, as defined in the .end.development file. For production, we set a PORT environment variable

Serverless

Deploying each service individually using the command:

npx nodeshift --knative

The command to get the URL endpoints is a bit different when deploying the redhat-airline-ui project:

oc new-app \
  -n redhat-airline \
  --name=redhat-airline-ui nodejs:latest~https://github.com/vincent-tsugranes/redhat-airline-ui.git \
  -e VUE_APP_FLIGHT_API_URL=$(oc get ksvc redhat-airline-flight-api -o json | jq -r '.status.url') \
  -e VUE_APP_CREWMEMBER_API_URL=$(oc get ksvc redhat-airline-crewmember-api -o json | jq -r '.status.url') \
  -e VUE_APP_AIRPORT_API_URL=$(oc get ksvc redhat-airline-airport-api -o json | jq -r '.status.url') \
  -e VUE_APP_CARGO_API_URL=$(oc get ksvc redhat-airline-cargo-api -o json | jq -r '.status.url') \
  -l app=redhat-airline