Using ServiceStage to Host Microservice Applications

Procedure

Figure 1 shows the process of using ServiceStage to host microservice applications.

Figure 1 ServiceStage process

Prerequisites

1. You have registered a Huawei account and enabled Huawei Cloud services.
2. The login account has the permission to use ServiceStage. For details, see Creating a User and Granting Permissions.

3. You have created a VPC. For details, see Creating a VPC.
4. You have created a CCE cluster. For details, see Buying a CCE Cluster.
   • The VPC to which the CCE cluster belongs is the VPC created in 3.
   • The cluster contains at least one ECS node and is bound to an elastic IP address. (To facilitate subsequent operations, you are advised to select a node of 4 vCPUs and 8 GB memory.) For details, see Creating a Node.
   • The CCE cluster cannot be bound to other environments.

Registering a GitHub Account and Forking the Demo Source Code

1. Register a GitHub account.
2. Log in to GitHub.
3. Navigate to the demo source code repository.
4. Fork the demo source code repository to your account. For details, see Forking a repository.

Creating Repository Authorization

1. Log in to ServiceStage using a registered Huawei Cloud account.
2. In the region list, select a region where ServiceStage is to be used, for example, AP-Singapore.
   Figure 2 Logging in to ServiceStage
   

3. Choose Continuous Delivery > Repository Authorization.
4. Click Create Authorization. The page for creating repository authorization is displayed.
5. Retain the default authorization name.
6. Set Repository Authorization.
   1. Select GitHub.
   2. Select OAuth.
   3. Click Authenticate with OAuth.
   4. After reading the service statement, select I understand that the source code building function of the ServiceStage service collects the information above and agree to authorize the collection and use of the information.
   5. Click OK.
   6. Enter your GitHub account and password to log in to GitHub for identity authentication. Wait until the authorization is complete.

7. Click OK. You can view the created authorization in the repository authorization list.
   Figure 3 Authorizing a Repository
   

Creating an Organization

1. Choose Deployment Source Management > Organization Management.
2. Click Create Organization. On the displayed page, specify Organization Name. For example, ss-org.
3. Click OK.

Creating an Exclusive Microservice Engine

NOTICE:

If the engine is created using an account with the minimum permission for creating engines, for example, cse:engine:create in the Fine-grained Permissions, the default VPC security group cse-engine-default-sg needs to be preset by the primary account. For details, see Creating a Microservice Engine.

1. Choose Cloud Service Engine > Engines.
2. Click Buy Exclusive Microservice Engine and set the parameters by referring to the following table.

   Parameter	Description
   Billing Mode	Select Pay-per-use.
   Enterprise Project	default is selected by default. Enterprise projects let you manage cloud resources and users by project. It is available after you enable the enterprise project function.
   Specifications	Retain the default value.
   Engine Type	Select Cluster.
   Name	Enter a microservice engine name, for example, cse-test.
   AZ	Select an AZ for the microservice engine.
   Network	Select a VPC and its subnets created in Prerequisites to provision logically isolated, configurable, and manageable virtual networks for your engine.
   Security Authentication	Select Disable security authentication.

3. Click Buy Now.
4. Confirm the parameters. Click Submit.

   It takes about 31 minutes to create an engine. After the microservice engine is created, its status is Available.

   Figure 4 Creating a microservice engine
   

Creating an Environment

1. Choose Environment Management > Create Environment. Then set required environment parameters by referring to the following table, and retain the default values for other parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Environment	Enter an environment name, for example, env-test.
   Enterprise Project	default is selected by default. Enterprise projects let you manage cloud resources and users by project. It is available after you enable the enterprise project function.
   Environment Type	Select Kubernetes.
   HA Environment	Select No.
   VPC	Select the VPC prepared in Prerequisites. NOTE: The VPC cannot be modified after the environment is created.
   Configuration Mode	Select Resource management.

   Figure 5 Creating an environment
   

2. Click Create Now.
3. In the Resource area, choose Cloud Container Engine from Compute and click Bind now.
4. In the dialog box that is displayed, select the CCE cluster created in Prerequisites and click OK.
5. Choose ServiceComb Engines under Middleware and click Manage Resource.
6. In the dialog box that is displayed, select the ServiceComb engine created in Creating an Exclusive Microservice Engine and click OK.

Creating an Application

1. Click in the upper left corner to return to the Environment Management page.
   Figure 6 Backing to Environment Management
   

2. Choose Application Management > Create Application and configure the application by referring to the following table.

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Enter an application name, for example, servicecomb.
   Enterprise Project	default is selected by default. Enterprise projects let you manage cloud resources and users by project. It is available after you enable the enterprise project function.

3. Click OK.
   Figure 7 Creating an application
   

Creating and Deploying a Component

1. Select the application (for example, servicecomb) created in Creating an Application and click Create Component in the Operation column.
   Figure 8 Creating a component
   

2. In the Basic Information area, set the following mandatory parameters. Retain the default values for other parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Component Name	Enter a component name, for example, java-test.
   Component Version	Enter 1.0.0.
   Application	Select the application created in Creating an Application, for example, servicecomb.
   Environment	Select the environment created in Creating an Environment, for example, env-test.
   Namespace	Select default to isolate component instances.

   Figure 9 Setting the basic component information
   

3. In the Component Package area, set the following mandatory parameters. Retain the default values for other parameters.
   1. Stack: Select Java.
   2. Source Code/Software Package: Select Source code repository.
   3. Select GitHub.
   4. Authorization: Select the repository authorization created when Creating Repository Authorization.
   5. Username/Organization: Select the GitHub account created when Registering a GitHub Account and Forking the Demo Source Code.
   6. Repository: Select demo source code repository ServiceComb-SpringMVC forked when Registering a GitHub Account and Forking the Demo Source Code.
   7. Branch: Select master.
   Figure 10 Setting the component source
   

4. In the Build Job area, set the following mandatory parameters. Retain the default values for other parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Organization	Select the organization created in Creating an Organization, for example, ss-org. An organization is used to manage images generated during component build.
   Environment	Select Use current environment to use the CCE cluster in the deployment environment to which the component belongs to build an image. In the current environment, masters and nodes in the CCE cluster must have the same CPU architecture. Otherwise, the component build fails.
   Namespace	Select default to isolate build data.

   Figure 11 Configuring build parameters
   

5. Click Next.
6. In the Resources area, set parameters by referring to the following table.

   Parameter	Description
   Resources	Deselect CPU and Memory, indicating that the resource usage is not limited.
   Instances	Set this parameter to 1.

   Figure 12 Setting component instance resources
   

7. Bind a microservice engine.
   1. Choose Cloud Service Settings > Microservice Engine.
   2. Click Bind Microservice Engine.
   3. Select the managed exclusive ServiceComb engine in the current environment.
   4. Click OK.
   Figure 13 Binding a microservice engine
   

8. Click Create and Deploy and wait until the component is deployed.
   Figure 14 The component is deployed.
   

Confirming the Deployment Result

1. Click in the upper left corner to return to the Component Management page.
   Figure 15 Backing to Component Management
   

2. Choose Cloud Service Engine > Microservice Catalog.
3. Select a cloud service engine managed in Creating an Environment from the Microservice Engine drop-down list.

   

4. Select springmvc from All applications.

   If the servicecombspringmvc microservice exists and the number of microservice instances is 1, the component instance has been connected to the microservice engine.

   Figure 16 Confirming the deployment result
   

Accessing an Application

1. Choose Application Management. The application list is displayed.
2. Click the application created in Creating an Application (for example, servicecomb). The Overview page is displayed.
3. On the Component List tab, click the component created in Creating and Deploying a Component (for example, java-test). The Overview page is displayed.
4. Click Access Mode.
5. Click Add Service in the TCP/UDP Route Configuration area and set parameters by referring to the following table.

   Parameter	Description
   Service Name	Retain the default setting.
   Access Mode	Select Public network access.
   Access Type	Select Elastic IP address.
   Service Affinity	Retain the default value.
   Port Mapping	Protocol: Select TCP. Container Port: Enter 8080. Access Port: Select Automatically generated.

   Figure 17 Setting the access mode
   

6. Click OK.
   Figure 18 Generating an access address
   

7. Click the access address in the Access Address column to access the application, as shown in Figure 18.
   The following information is displayed:

   {"message":"Not Found"}

8. Enter http://Access address generated in 6/rest/helloworld?name=ServiceStage in the address box of the browser to access the application again.

   The following information is displayed:

   "ServiceStage"