andrea-politi / hello-dropwizard

Introduction

The Dropwizard Hello World application

Running The Application

To test the example application run the following commands.

• To package the example run the following from the root dropwizard directory.

    mvn package
  

• To run the server run.

    java -jar target/hello-dropwizard-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server example.yml
  

• To hit the Hello World example (hit refresh a few times).

  http://localhost:8080/hello-world

  http://localhost:8080/hello-world?name=World

• The healthcheck resource runs the health check class we wrote. You should see something like this:

  • deadlocks: OK
  • template: OK

Dev Environment Exercise (Please ignore)

Background

The company you work for is building a dropwizard Restful services. They have completed their first sprint of work and are ready to begin preparing to ship it. Being a DevOps genius, you know that it will be difficult to reproduce bugs and increase ownership if there's not an easy way to reliably run these services locally as you would in production. At the same time, you want to get some automation that can be reused in production.

Your Task

Your next task is to take the recently built hello-dropwizard service:

• Read the documentation for the Hello Dropwizard service and test them to make sure they work as expected.
• Once you understand their usage, use preferred tools and technology to create automation that stands up local dev environment of the stack.
• You discuss with the engineers that in order for a service oriented architecture to work best, there will need to be some http routing in front of the services so that requests go to the right places. When the stack is deployed, accessing /hello should route to the hello-dropwizard/hello-world. Use technology and tools you know to implement this behavior.

Bonus (Optional)

• If you haven't already, create an efficient docker image based on best practices for at least one service. Be prepared to explain why it's efficient.

Results

Make the dev environment automation available via a public github repo with any instructions on how to run your dev environment in an accompanying README.md file. Send it in and be prepared to discuss it.