Deploy Example Application
When trying out Steadybit you may want to start easy instead of directly using your fully fledged system. Therefore, we have a small example application called Shopping Demo which you can easily deploy on a local minikube or AWS EKS using this guide.
Simply follow these two steps:
Prerequisites
You have already signed up for an account on our website
You are able to log in to the Steadybit SaaS platform
You have Kubernetes kubectl installed
You have Helm - The package manager for Kubernetes installed
Step 1 - Have a look a the example application
In order to give you a quick and easy start, we have developed a small demo application. Our shopping demo is a small product catalog provided by seven distributed backend services and a simple UI.

If you want to learn more about our demo, please take a look at our GitHub repository: https://github.com/steadybit/shopping-demo
Step 2 - Deploy the example application
The example application is already pre-configured to be deployed into a Kubernetes cluster. You can choose whether to deploy it into a) local minikube installation or b) AWS EKS.
Kubernetes, also known as k8s, is an open source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. You can use minikube to set up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux or Windows. As an alternative choose AWS EKS to set up a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud.
Make sure to install the agents afterwards into the same environment.
Step 2a) Deploy on Minikube
Prerequisite
You have a running minikube installation
Start your minikube cluster
From a terminal, run:
You can access your cluster with:
Deploy the example application
Now we use helm to deploy the demo by running the following command:
Verify that all Shopping Demo pods are running:
You will see the following result, all pods are ready if you can see the status Running
:
You can do a local port forward to your minikube to open the gateway
service via your browser:
Visit http://127.0.01:8080/products
in your browser to retrieve the aggregated list of all products or just use curl
:
The result is an aggregated list of all products of the services toys
, hot-deals
and fashion
:
Step 2b) Deploy on AWS EKS
Prerequisites
Create your AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS) cluster and nodes
Verfiy your AWS CLI configuration by running:
Your output should be similiar to:
Create your Amazon EKS cluster and containing 2 nodes by running the following command. More details are available at AWS documentation
From a terminal, run:
You can access your cluster with:
Your output should be look like:
Deploy the Shopping Demo
Now we use kubectl to deploy the demo by running the following command:
Maybe you need to edit some ingress hosts names in your own values.yaml
file.
Verify that all Shopping Demo pods are running:
You will see the following result, all pods are ready if you can see the status Running
:
With the following command you can now determine the external IP and port to access the gateway
service:
Example response:
Visit http://{EXTERNAL-IP}:{PORT}/products
in your browser to retrieve the aggregated list of all products or just use curl
:
The result is an aggregated list of all products of the services toys
, hot-deals
and fashion
:
Next Steps
Now, make sure to install the agents into the same environment (minikube or AWS EKS).
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