transactions

Components

1. DB with postgres image
2. Frontend in HTML/CSS with nginx image
3. Backend with express node image

Local Testing of the App

docker compose up -d  --build --remove-orphans

Local Image Build

# because bake can read config from docker compose as well hence providing the file name explicitly
docker buildx bake --file docker-bake.hcl transactions

Env

• The .env.example can be used as a ref for env variables

Versioning

• The version is managed by package.json version and tags are created by the github actions

Build and Deploy

• metadata action for generating metadata like annotations, tags and labels for the image
• buildx setup action is used to setup bake required build
• bake action is used to build the multi platform parallel builds
• The latest tags is attached to the newest image pushed

App Details

• The application is a simple transactions app which has 2 routes in the backend to add and list transactions of lend and borrow.
• The frontend uses the backend to connect store and list the transactions and shown below: