The Carts web service provides a RESTful API for adding, changing, and deleting shopping carts. The Web UI makes calls to this service as a user adds and removes products to their cart and during checkout.
When deployed to AWS, CodePipeline is used to build and deploy the Carts service as a Docker container to Amazon ECS behind an Application Load Balancer. The Carts service can also be run locally in a Docker container. This makes it easier to iterate on and test changes locally before commiting.
The Carts service can be built and run locally (in Docker) using Docker Compose. See the local development instructions for details. From the ../src directory, run the following command to build and deploy the service locally.
foo@bar:~$ docker-compose up --build cartsOnce the container is up and running, you can access it in your browser or with a utility such as Postman at http://localhost:8003.