Telepresence Quick Start - React
Contents
In this guide we'll give you everything you need in a preconfigured demo cluster: the Telepresence CLI, a config file for connecting to your demo cluster, and code to run a cluster service locally.
1. Download the demo cluster archive
- Sign in to Ambassador Cloud to download your demo cluster archive. The archive contains all the tools and configurations you need to complete this guide.
Extract the archive file, open the
ambassador-demo-cluster
folder, and run the installer script (the commands below might vary based on where your browser saves downloaded files).shellcd ~/Downloadsunzip ambassador-demo-cluster.zip -d ambassador-demo-clustercd ambassador-demo-cluster./install.sh# type y to install the npm dependencies when askedConfirm that your
kubectl
is configured to use the demo cluster by getting the status of the cluster nodes, you should see a single node namedtpdemo-prod-...
:kubectl get nodes
shell$ kubectl get nodesNAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSIONtpdemo-prod-1234 Ready control-plane,master 5d10h v1.20.2+k3s1Confirm that the Telepresence CLI is now installed (we expect to see the daemons are not running yet):
telepresence status
Terminal$ telepresence statusRoot Daemon: Not runningUser Daemon: Not running
2. Test Telepresence
Telepresence connects your local workstation to a remote Kubernetes cluster.
Connect to the cluster (this requires root privileges and will ask for your password):
telepresence connect
Terminal$ telepresence connectLaunching Telepresence Daemon...Connected to context default (https://<cluster-public-IP>)Test that Telepresence is working properly by connecting to the Kubernetes API server:
curl -ik https://kubernetes.default
Terminal$ curl -ik https://kubernetes.defaultHTTP/1.1 401 UnauthorizedCache-Control: no-cache, privateContent-Type: application/json...
3. Set up the sample application
Your local workstation may not have the compute or memory resources necessary to run all the services in a multi-service application. In this example, we’ll show you how Telepresence can give you a fast development loop, even in this situation.
Clone the emojivoto app:
git clone https://github.com/datawire/emojivoto.git
Deploy the app to your cluster:
kubectl apply -k emojivoto/kustomize/deployment
Change the kubectl namespace:
kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=emojivoto
List the Services:
kubectl get svc
Terminal$ kubectl get svcNAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGEemoji-svc ClusterIP 10.43.162.236 <none> 8080/TCP,8801/TCP 29svoting-svc ClusterIP 10.43.51.201 <none> 8080/TCP,8801/TCP 29sweb-app ClusterIP 10.43.242.240 <none> 80/TCP 29sweb-svc ClusterIP 10.43.182.119 <none> 8080/TCP 29sSince you’ve already connected Telepresence to your cluster, you can access the frontend service in your browser at http://web-app.emojivoto. This is the namespace qualified DNS name in the form of
service.namespace
.
4. Test app
Vote for some emojis and see how the leaderboard changes.
There is one emoji that causes an error when you vote for it. Vote for 🍩 and the leaderboard does not actually update. Also an error is shown on the browser dev console:
GET http://web-svc.emojivoto:8080/api/vote?choice=:doughnut: 500 (Internal Server Error)
The error is on a backend service, so we can add an error page to notify the user while the bug is fixed.
5. Run a service on your laptop
Now start up the web-app
service on your laptop. We'll then make a code change and intercept this service so that we can see the immediate results of a code change to the service.
In a new terminal window, change into the repo directory and build the application:
cd <cloned repo location>/emojivoto
make web-app-local
Terminal$ make web-app-local...webpack 5.34.0 compiled successfully in 4326 ms✨ Done in 5.38s.Change into the service's code directory and start the server:
cd emojivoto-web-app
yarn webpack serve
Terminal$ yarn webpack serve...ℹ 「wds」: Project is running at http://localhost:8080/...ℹ 「wdm」: Compiled successfully.Access the application at http://localhost:8080 and see how voting for the 🍩 is generating the same error as the application deployed in the cluster.
6. Make a code change
We’ve now set up a local development environment for the app. Next we'll make and locally test a code change to the app to improve the issue with voting for 🍩.
In the terminal running webpack, stop the server with
Ctrl+c
.In your preferred editor open the file
emojivoto/emojivoto-web-app/js/components/Vote.jsx
and replace therender()
function (lines 83 to the end) with this highlighted code snippet.Run webpack to fully recompile the code then start the server again:
yarn webpack
yarn webpack serve
Reload the browser tab showing http://localhost:8080 and vote for 🍩. Notice how you see an error instead, improving the user experience.
7. Intercept all traffic to the service
Next, we’ll create an intercept. An intercept is a rule that tells Telepresence where to send traffic. In this example, we will send all traffic destined for the app to the version running locally instead.
Start the intercept with the
intercept
command, setting the workload name (a Deployment in this case), namespace, and port:telepresence intercept web-app --namespace emojivoto --port 8080
Terminal$ telepresence intercept web-app --namespace emojivoto --port 8080Using deployment web-appinterceptedIntercept name: web-app-emojivotoState : ACTIVE...Go to the frontend service again in your browser at http://web-app.emojivoto. Voting for 🍩 should now show an error message to the user.
What's Next?
Collaborating
Use preview URLS to collaborate with your colleagues and others outside of your organization.
Outbound Sessions
While connected to the cluster, your laptop can interact with services as if it was another pod in the cluster.
FAQs
Learn more about uses cases and the technical implementation of Telepresence.