To perform our investigation, collect some meteorology information using API from https://frost.met.no/. Collect (and store in a local database) information about all Norway weather stations which measures wind from direction and provide a report (output) of the top 10 points with the oldest data of measuring beginning.
Create a simple Web-application (see the description in the “Application” section below), CI/CD infrastructure and pipeline for it. Acceptance Criteria and presentation A short presentation (.ppt or other) which contains description of the solution should be prepared and sent to the commission before a demo session. The working application with the pipeline is to be demonstrated live on a “protection of the diploma” session for experts with comments and explanation of the details of the implementation, reasons of choosing tools and technologies. Detailed requirements/criteria:
| Criteria | Reqiurements | Related Module |
|---|---|---|
| SCM | Application sources should be placed in Git repository. Branching strategy should be explained. | Git |
| Tests* | CI pipeline may contain unit tests, smoke tests, linter check. | CI/CD |
| Quality gate | CI/CD pipeline should use some quality/vulnerability control tool like a Sonar or Anchore. | CI/CD |
| IaC | CI/CI and runtime infrastructure should be described as a code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or any similar tool. On the demonstration deployment procedure should be shown. | Cloud, Terraform, Ansible |
| Orchestration | All non cloud-native tools should be spinned up inside a K8S/OpenShift cluster inside a cloud. Application runtime environments should be inside the cluster too. | Kubernetes |
| Logging | Infrastructure should have centralized log collection/display system. Logs of the application components and infra components should be collected. | Monitoring and Logging |
| Monitoring | Infrastructure should have centralized metric collection/display system. Metrics of the application components and infra components should be collected. | Monitoring and Logging |
| Runtime/Deployment | Runtime infrastructure should have production and non production environments. Deploy/release strategy should be explained. | CI/CD |
| Scalability/redundancy | Scalability should be provided and demonstrated | Kubernetes |
| Cloud and Cost efficiency** | Cloud resources and services must be used for the task. Report about the Cloud resource usage and the cost must be provided in the presentation. It should be efficient (minimal) – in accordance to the solving tasks. You can choose any cloud provider taking into account possible extra costs for the resources. | Cloud |
* Nice to have – optional
** Be careful with the Cloud resource usage and check the costs for not to exceed limits! Switch off your machines when you are not using them!
Develop a simple (lightweight) 3-tier application (front-end, back-end, database).
Back-end (collects data) must:
- Retrieve a portion of data from API (see in your Variant) and store it in a database
- Update data on demand
- Update DB schema if needed on app’s update
Front-end (outputs data) must:
- Display any portion of the data stored in the DB
- Provide a method to trigger data update process
Database:
- Choose Database type and data scheme in a suitable manner.
- Data must be stored in a persistent way
- It’s better to use cloud native DB solutions like an RDS/AzureSQL/CloudSQL.