Create a Development Environment with Okteto, Kubernetes, and GCP Services

This is an example of how to configure and deploy a development environment that includes polyglot microservices, an GCP pub/sub topic and subscription, and an GCP storage bucket.

Architecture

Run the demo application in Okteto

Prerequisites:

1. Okteto CLI 2.14 or newer

2. A GCP account

3. An Okteto account (Sign-up for 30 day, self-hosted free trial)

4. Create a service account key with create/read/write/delete permissions to pub/sub and storage of IAM keys for your GCP accoun.

5. Add the following Admin variables in your Okteto cluster:

    GCP_SERVICE_KEY: The `base64` encoded service account key with permission to create, write, read, and delete cloud resources. 
    GCP_PROJECT_ID: The project id you would like to use to create the cloud resources
   

If you are using Okteto Self-Hosted, you can also use a Workload Identity

Once this is configured, anyone with access to your Okteto instance will be able to deploy a development environment, including the required cloud infrastructure, automatically.

$ git clone https://github.com/okteto/external-resources-gcp
$ cd external-resources-gcp
$ okteto context use $OKTETO_URL
$ okteto deploy

Develop on the Menu microservice

$ okteto up menu

Develop on the Kitchen microservice

$ okteto up kitchen

Develop on the Result microservice

$ okteto up check

Notes

This isn't an example of a properly architected, perfectly designed distributed app... it's a simple example of the various types of pieces and languages you might see (queues, persistent data, etc), and how to deal with them in Okteto.