My full deployment of Google Cloud's microservices on Kubernetes

This is a full deployment of Google Cloud's Online Boutique. It is a cloud-native microservices e-commerce application, running locally on Kubernetes with full monitoring, autoscaling, and service observability.

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Stack Overview

Layer	Tool/Tech
Orchestration	Kubernetes (Minikube)
Services	11 Microservices (Go, Python, Java, Node.js, C#)
Ingress	NodePort (Local)
Storage	Redis (for cart)
Monitoring	Prometheus, Grafana
Autoscaling	Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)

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Microservices Included

• frontend – UI layer (Go)
• cartservice – Cart state (Redis-backed)
• checkoutservice – Order finalization
• productcatalogservice, currencyservice, paymentservice, emailservice, shippingservice
• adservice, recommendationservice, loadgenerator

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Features

• ✅ Modular Kubernetes Manifests
  Split YAMLs for Deployments and Services per microservice

• ✅ Prometheus Monitoring
  Scrapes metrics from all core services. nb

• ✅ Grafana Dashboards
  Preloaded with Pod CPU/Memory dashboards. nb

• ✅ Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)
  Based on CPU utilization for frontend, cart, and checkout

• ✅ Health Probes
  Readiness & liveness probes for robust deployments

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Local Setup

Prerequisites

• Minikube
• kubectl

Run the App

# Start cluster
minikube start

# Apply manifests
kubectl apply -f k8s-manifests/deployments/
kubectl apply -f k8s-manifests/services/
kubectl apply -f k8s-manifests/monitoring/namespace.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s-manifests/monitoring/ --namespace=monitoring