Hearsay DevOps Assignment

Introduction

Welcome to the DevOps assignment part of your Hearsay journey! In this repo we present you with a small set of tasks that will help us assess your skill level with various tools and technologies.

The assignment should take less than 2 hours to complete, please timebox yourself to this timeframe.

We created some boilerplate for you which includes:

• a Python Flask API web application package with requirements
• pytest tests for the web application
• an Nginx configuration with its' corresponding Dockerfile-nginx
• two Github actions to run the tests and the linter
• a Github workflow file skeleton

Some of these might have issues which you should fix in order to have a working solution.

First steps

As a first step you should create a new private repository of your own from this template. To do so click the green Use this template button and then select Create a new repository, from then set yourself as Owner give a name to the repo and click the radio button next to Private to make it private.

Once the repository is created make sure that Dependabot alerts are enabled under Settings/Security/Code security.

Tasks

From here you can proceed with the following tasks:

• write two endpoints for the Flask app based on the tests and make sure it works with the Nginx config
• write a Dockerfile which is able to run the Python application inside a Docker container
• minimize the size of the built Docker web app image
• write a docker-compose.yml to run and connect the two services and expose the web application through Nginx (use the provided Dockerfile-nginx to build the Nginx image)
• finish the build Github workflow job which should:
  • automatically start upon git pushes but can be started manually too
  • build the web application image
  • print the size of the built image
  • start the two services using docker-compose
  • print the responses and status codes from the two endpoins
• make sure that the tests pass and the liner reports no issues
• ensure that no temporary files can get pushed to git
• fix any other issues that you might encounter

Wrap up

When you successfully finished the assignment or your time has ran out it's time to submit the link to your repository while also sharing it with us. Go to Settings, in the left panel click Collaborators and add the following users:

• csizmaziakiki
• lopezm1
• renegillson