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# Example Voting App
A simple distributed application running across multiple Docker containers.
## Getting started
Download [Docker Desktop](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) for Mac or Windows. [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose) will be automatically installed. On Linux, make sure you have the latest version of [Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/).
This solution uses Python, Node.js, .NET, with Redis for messaging and Postgres for storage.
Run in this directory to build and run the app:
```shell
docker compose up
```
The `vote` app will be running at [http://localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000), and the `results` will be at [http://localhost:5001](http://localhost:5001).
Alternately, if you want to run it on a [Docker Swarm](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/), first make sure you have a swarm. If you don't, run:
```shell
docker swarm init
```
Once you have your swarm, in this directory run:
```shell
docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-stack.yml vote
```
## Run the app in Kubernetes
The folder k8s-specifications contains the YAML specifications of the Voting App's services.
Run the following command to create the deployments and services objects in the vote namespace:
```shell
kubectl create -f k8s-specifications/
vote "vote" created
deployment "db" created
deployment "db" created
service "db" created
deployment "redis" created
service "redis" created
deployment "result" created
service "result" created
deployment "vote" created
service "vote" created
deployment "worker" created
```
The vote interface is then available on port 31000 on each host of the cluster, the result one is available on port 31001.
## Architecture
![Architecture diagram](architecture.png)
* A front-end web app in [Python](/vote) which lets you vote between two options
* A [Redis](https://hub.docker.com/_/redis/) which collects new votes
* A [.NET](/worker/) worker which consumes votes and stores them in…
* A [Postgres](https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/) database backed by a Docker volume
* A [Node.js](/result) web app which shows the results of the voting in real time
## Notes
The voting application only accepts one vote per client browser. It does not register additional votes if a vote has already been submitted from a client.
This isn't an example of a properly architected perfectly designed distributed app... it's just a simple
example of the various types of pieces and languages you might see (queues, persistent data, etc), and how to
deal with them in Docker at a basic level.