ocp-virt-win-iis-ossm-pipeline-demo

See PROVISION.md for instructions on setting up the demo environment

Use RHDH to deploy application stack [DEMO SCRIPT]

This involves clicking "create" filling out three templates Project, IIS Web Application and IIS Frontend Application (in that order).

Before proceeding, be sure that the pipeline run windows-efi-installer mentioned earlier has completed successfully.

Steps:

1. Log into Developer Hub using your userX gitlab credentials (provided vi demo hub)

2. Launch Developer Hub Console and create 'Project`

• Log in as user1.
• Click "Create" and select the Project catalog item.
• Fill out the Project template:
  • Component Name: Provide a name for the new component.
  • Owner: Set this to group:user1.
  • GitLab URL: Enter your GitLab URL without the https:// prefix.
  • Development Item: Leave this as the default value.
• Complete the template setup.
  

3. Create IIS Web Application:

• After the Project template is provisioned, create an IIS Web Application using the corresponding catalog item.
• Keep defaults for all the steps
• This application can take a few minutes to be up and running (15+ minutes sometimes)

4. Create Frontend Application:

• After the IIS Web Application template is provisioned, create an IIS Frontend Application using the corresponding catalog item.
• Choose the backend you created in step 2
• Keep defaults for IIS deployment options step

5. Sync with ArgoCD:

• Wait for ArgoCD to automatically sync, or manually trigger the sync from the ArgoCD console.

Validate application access

1. Locate the new project in the OpenShift console. For instance, if the project name is test, you will find a test-dev project.

2. verify front end is up with and accessible via the istio-ingressgateway route - this will run even if the backend is down, but will only display red status circles. They will show up as green if the backend is up.

export GATEWAY=$(oc get route istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o template --template '{{ .spec.host }}')

echo $GATEWAY 
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" $GATEWAY

(example output:)

istio-ingressgateway-istio-system.apps.cluster-nqwzb.nqwzb.sandbox1400.opentlc.com
200 # <- http return code

Note: If the return code is not 200, something is not right

3. Access the front end webpage using the $GATEWAY URL in a browser (note: http not https)

If the status shows green next to Service and Data, then the front end is successfully communicating with the IIS service running on the VM.

4. Check istio connectivity in Kiali

• Go to the topology view of your namespace and click the Kiali link in the upper right corner

• View the flow of traffic in the Graph view in Kiali