Production deployment/logging/monitoring

[dhmlau]

Cross posting from @bajtos ' comment:

production deployment, monitoring and logging; ideally using IBM Cloud as the target platform for our demos and to help us prioritize different aspects of production readiness. This topic involves questions like:

• How do I modify behavior of my LoopBack4 application in production, e.g. modify error responses to not leak any sensitive data?
• How do I configure database connection strings, access credentials, port number to listen on, etc. for my LoopBack4 application?
• How can I secure my application? (This overlaps with the existing epic of Authentication/authorization/security.)
• How do I monitor behavior of my LoopBack application in production, what useful insights can I get on top of usual low-level Node.js metrics?
• How can I upgrade my applications with zero downtime? Is there anything special needed to enable blue/green deployments?
• Where can I find logs from my app? How can I produce my own log entries from my custom code (e.g. controller methods)?

In addition, we need to be able change to use different config json based on the NODE_ENV. https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Preparing-for-deployment.html#configuration-for-deployment.

• Need to add support for server/config.production.json, server/component-config.production.json and server/datasource.production.json

[dhmlau]

see the documentation Deploy the Shopping Application as Cloud-native Microservices using Kubernetes: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback4-example-shopping/tree/master/kubernetes

[raymondfeng]

A blog is being developed - https://github.com/strongloop/strongloop.com/pull/227

[dhmlau]

Closing as done. The blog is scheduled to be published.