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Launch the bookstore

advanced, about 30 minutes, in the Kubernetes Simulator

Free in your browser, nothing to install.

The briefing

Ticket WEB-142 — launch the Bookstore. The cluster is empty apart from the ingress controller. Build it the way you'd build it at work.

frontend — nginx:1.27, 2 replicas, serving our page: index.html in your directory.
api — ghcr.io/hackademy/orders-api:1.2, 2 replicas, listening on 8080. It reads DB_PASSWORD from its environment; the database password is b00ks-prod-7, and it must not appear in any Deployment.
Customers use http://bookstore.local: / goes to the frontend, /api to the API.
The API answers /ready only once it can reach the database. Don't send it traffic before that.
The launch email goes out in about ten minutes: the API must scale itself between 2 and 6 replicas on CPU.

Name things as the ticket does (frontend, api) — the team's dashboards look for those names. There are no starter files beyond the page, and the hints won't hand you commands.

What you'll do

The API runs 2 ready replicas, its password from a Secret
Only API pods that can reach the database get traffic
The frontend serves index.html from a ConfigMap, 2 replicas
bookstore.local serves the page at / and the API at /api
The API scales itself between 2 and 6 replicas on CPU
Ride out launch traffic with at least 4 ready API pods
Bonus star: Check the page through the front door with curl

The mission checks the cluster, not your keystrokes: any fix that works, passes.

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