🚀 Implement comprehensive deployment and containerization strategy #17

Copilot · 2025-06-21T06:35:38Z

This PR implements a complete deployment and containerization strategy for NLWebNet, providing multiple deployment options for different environments and platforms.

🎯 Overview

Addresses the need for production-ready deployment infrastructure by implementing Docker containerization, Kubernetes manifests, Azure cloud templates, and comprehensive automation scripts.

🚀 Key Features Implemented

🐳 Docker & Containerization

Multi-stage Dockerfile optimized for .NET 9 with security hardening
Docker Compose setup for local development with health checks
Container security: Non-root user, minimal attack surface, proper permissions
Build automation: Scripts for building and pushing to registries

☸️ Kubernetes Support

Raw K8s manifests: Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, and HPA
Helm chart: Production-ready chart with comprehensive configuration options
Auto-scaling: HorizontalPodAutoscaler with CPU/memory targets
Security: RBAC, network policies, and secrets management

☁️ Azure Cloud Templates

Azure Container Apps: Bicep template with auto-scaling and monitoring
Azure App Service: Bicep template for traditional app hosting
Application Insights: Integrated telemetry and performance monitoring
Secrets management: Azure Key Vault integration patterns

🔧 Automation & CI/CD

Deployment scripts: Automated build and deploy scripts for Docker and Azure
CI/CD integration: Docker build and health check testing in GitHub Actions
Environment configuration: Development, staging, and production variants

📁 Files Added

├── Dockerfile                           # Multi-stage container build
├── docker-compose.yml                   # Local development setup
├── .dockerignore                        # Build optimization
├── k8s/                                 # Kubernetes manifests
│   ├── deployment.yaml
│   ├── service.yaml
│   ├── ingress.yaml
│   └── configmap.yaml
├── helm/nlwebnet/                       # Helm chart
│   ├── Chart.yaml
│   ├── values.yaml
│   ├── README.md
│   └── templates/
├── deploy/azure/                        # Azure Bicep templates
│   ├── container-apps.bicep
│   ├── app-service.bicep
│   └── container-apps.parameters.json
├── scripts/deploy/                      # Automation scripts
│   ├── build-docker.sh
│   └── deploy-azure.sh
└── doc/deployment/
    └── README.md                        # Comprehensive deployment guide

🎮 Quick Start Examples

Docker

# Local development
docker-compose up --build

# Production build
./scripts/deploy/build-docker.sh -t v1.0.0 -r myregistry.azurecr.io -p

Kubernetes

# Raw manifests
kubectl apply -f k8s/

# Helm chart
helm install nlwebnet ./helm/nlwebnet

Azure

# Container Apps
./scripts/deploy/deploy-azure.sh -g myResourceGroup -t container-apps

# App Service  
./scripts/deploy/deploy-azure.sh -g myResourceGroup -t app-service

🛡️ Security & Production Features

Container security: Non-root execution, capability dropping, read-only filesystem where possible
Secrets management: Kubernetes secrets, Azure Key Vault integration
Health checks: Leverages existing /health and /health/detailed endpoints
Monitoring: Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics support
Auto-scaling: HPA for Kubernetes, scale rules for Azure Container Apps

📖 Documentation

Complete Deployment Guide: Comprehensive instructions for all platforms
Helm Chart README: Detailed Helm configuration examples
Updated main README: Quick-start deployment examples
Troubleshooting guides: Common issues and debugging steps

🧪 Testing

The CI/CD pipeline now includes:

Docker image build validation
Container health check testing
Multi-environment deployment verification

🎯 Deployment Matrix

Platform	Method	Status	Use Case
Local Development	Docker Compose	✅ Ready	Development/Testing
Kubernetes	Raw Manifests	✅ Ready	Custom K8s setups
Kubernetes	Helm Chart	✅ Ready	Production K8s
Azure Container Apps	Bicep Template	✅ Ready	Serverless containers
Azure App Service	Bicep Template	✅ Ready	Traditional hosting
Azure AKS	K8s + Documentation	✅ Ready	Managed Kubernetes

This implementation provides a solid foundation for deploying NLWebNet across various environments while maintaining security, scalability, and operational best practices.

Fixes #16.

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Co-authored-by: jongalloway <[email protected]>

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Pull Request Overview

This PR implements a comprehensive deployment and containerization strategy for NLWebNet, introducing production‐grade Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Azure deployment scripts along with CI/CD automation. Key changes include:

New multi-stage Dockerfile and Docker Compose configuration for both local development and production.
Kubernetes manifests (Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, HPA) and a fully featured Helm chart.
Azure Bicep templates and deployment scripts (for both Container Apps and App Service) integrated into CI/CD workflows.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 26 out of 26 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
scripts/deploy/deploy-azure.sh	Azure deployment script with parameter parsing and resource checks.
scripts/deploy/build-docker.sh	Shell script for building and optionally pushing Docker images.
k8s/*.yaml	Kubernetes manifests for service, deployment, ingress, and config.
helm/nlwebnet/*	Helm chart files including values, templates, helpers, and README.
deploy/azure/*.bicep & .json	Azure Bicep templates and parameters for containerized deployments.
docker-compose.yml	Docker Compose setup for local development.
Dockerfile	Multi‐stage Dockerfile with security hardening and non‐root execution.
.github/workflows/build.yml	CI/CD workflow steps including Docker build and health check testing.
doc/deployment/README.md	Comprehensive deployment guide covering multiple platforms.
README.md	Updated project README with deployment options and quick start examples.

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helm/nlwebnet/Chart.yaml:6

Using 'latest' as the appVersion may lead to ambiguity in version tracking; consider using a semantic version number to better reflect production releases.

appVersion: "latest"

Copilot · 2025-06-21T07:13:26Z

k8s/deployment.yaml

+          failureThreshold: 3
+        securityContext:
+          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+          readOnlyRootFilesystem: false


Consider enabling a read-only root filesystem (i.e. set readOnlyRootFilesystem to true) if your application does not require write access, to further harden container security.

Suggested change

readOnlyRootFilesystem: false

readOnlyRootFilesystem: true

Copilot · 2025-06-21T07:13:26Z

.github/workflows/build.yml

+        # Wait for container to start
+        sleep 10
+        
+        # Test health endpoint
+        if curl -f http://localhost:8080/health; then
+          echo "✅ Health check passed"
+        else
+          echo "❌ Health check failed"


Consider increasing the sleep duration before testing the health endpoint to accommodate slower container startup times in some environments.

Suggested change

# Wait for container to start

sleep 10

# Test health endpoint

if curl -f http://localhost:8080/health; then

echo "✅ Health check passed"

else

echo "❌ Health check failed"

# Wait for container to start dynamically

echo "⏳ Waiting for container to become ready..."

for i in {1..30}; do

if curl -f http://localhost:8080/health; then

echo "✅ Health check passed"

break

else

echo "⏳ Health check attempt $i failed, retrying in 2 seconds..."

sleep 2

fi

done

# Verify health check success

if ! curl -f http://localhost:8080/health; then

echo "❌ Health check failed after multiple attempts"

Initial plan for issue

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Co-authored-by: jongalloway <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: jongalloway <[email protected]>

Copilot AI changed the title ~~[WIP] 🚀 Deployment and Containerization Strategy (redux)~~ 🚀 Implement comprehensive deployment and containerization strategy Jun 21, 2025

Copilot AI requested a review from jongalloway June 21, 2025 06:48

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🎯 Overview

🚀 Key Features Implemented

🐳 Docker & Containerization

☸️ Kubernetes Support

☁️ Azure Cloud Templates

🔧 Automation & CI/CD

📁 Files Added

🎮 Quick Start Examples

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

🛡️ Security & Production Features

📖 Documentation

🧪 Testing

🎯 Deployment Matrix

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