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Book Fast (Docker)

A sample demonstrating how to implement a containerized multitenant facility management and accommodation booking application. It uses microservices architecture and relies on a bunch of Azure services.

Features

Architecture

Build and deployment

Security

Azure services

Running the applicaton

The application can be run locally in Docker Compose to facilitate VS debugging experience. In Staging/Production modes it's supposed to be run in a Kubernetes cluster.

Running locally in Docker Compose

docker-compose  -f "docker-compose.yml" -f "docker-compose.development.yml" --no-ansi build
docker-compose  -f "docker-compose.yml" -f "docker-compose.development.yml" --no-ansi up -d --no-build --force-recreate --remove-orphans

Running in Kubernetes (AKS)

There are GitHub workflows to build and deploy the application. It is expected that the following variables are set in GitHub secrets:

The credentials can be obtained by creating a new principal:

   az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "myApp" --role contributor \
                            --scopes /subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/{resource-group} \
                            --sdk-auth
                            
  # The command should output a JSON object similar to this:
 
  {
    "clientId": "<GUID>",
    "clientSecret": "<STRING>",
    "subscriptionId": "<GUID>",
    "tenantId": "<GUID>",
    "resourceManagerEndpointUrl": "<URL>"
  }

If you already have a principal you can construct the credentials JSON using appropriate values. For the resourceManagerEndpointUrl use https://management.azure.com/.

Configuration

The application supports Development, Staging and Production environments. In Development it relies on User Secrets and in Staging/Production it uses Azure KeyVault.

Here's a short description of configuration parameters:

{
  "ApplicationInsights": {
    "InstrumentationKey": "Application Insights resource instrumentation key"
  },
  "Authentication": {
    "AzureAd": {
      "Instance": "Your Azure AD instance, e.g. https://login.microsoftonline.com/",
      "Audience": "BookFast API AppId in Azure AD, e.g. https://devunleashed.onmicrosoft.com/book-fast-api",
      "ValidIssuers": "Comma separated list of tenant identifiers, e.g. https://sts.windows.net/490789ec-b183-4ba5-97cf-e69ec8870130/,https://sts.windows.net/f418e7eb-0dcd-40be-9b81-c58c87c57d9a/"
    }
  },
  "ServiceBus": {
    "ConnectionString": "Connection string to Service Bus topic",
    "Facility": {
      "NotificationQueueConnection": "Connection string to the Facility service notification queue"
    },
    "Booking": {
      "NotificationQueueConnection": "Connection string to the Booking service notification queue"
    }
  },
  "Data": {
    "Azure": {
      "Storage": {
        "ConnectionString": "Connection string to an Azure storage account"
      }
    },
    "DefaultConnection": {
      "ConnectionString": "Connection string to a SQL database"
    }
  },
  "Search": {
    "QueryKey": "Azure Search query key",
    "AdminKey": "Azure Search admin key",
    "ServiceEndpoint": "Azure Search service endpoint",
    "IndexName": "Azure Search index"
  }
}

User Secrets

All services are configured to use the same User Secrets ID for simplicity. So it's enough to configure User Secrets with the settings shown above once to be used in Development environment.

Azure KeyVault

Accessing KeyVault depends on how you run the application (in Kubernetes or in Docker Compose).

Kubernetes

The application has been designed to run in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). In Staging and Production modes services are configured to use pod identity called my-pod-identity (see deployment files). This article provides details on how to set up pod identity in the application namespace.

The pod identity in question is expected to reference a user-assigned managed identity that is configured to access KeyVault (list and get permissions).

Docker Compose

Currently Docker Compose is supposed to be used locally on a dev box. In Production mode (that is used for demo purpose only) the following directory gets mounted to containers: ${OneDrive}/dev/BookFast/KeyVault

The directory is expected to contain 4 plain text files:

File names are pretty much self explonatory. Just make sure they don't contain extra spaces or line feeds. The app is going to try to create a ClientSecretCredential to authenticate to KeyVault.

Alternatively it can also try to use a DefaultAzureCredential if there is a KeyVaultName environment variable. But in this case make sure to also define the following variables for DefaultAzureCredential to work:

In both cases you need to have a corresponding principal in your Azure AD tenant that is also configured to access KeyVault secrets (list and get permissions).

Azure AD

Azure AD is used for organizational accounts of facility providers. You will need two applications in Azure AD: one for the APIs (Book Fast API app) and one for the web (BookFast app). Both applications should have multitenant support enabled. BookFast should have a delegated permission to access BookFast API app. If you're new to Azure AD the following post are going to help you out:

Both apps have a user role called 'Facility Provider' that should be assigned to users to enable them to edit facilities. Please have a look at this post to understand how application and user roles are configured in Azure AD.

Azure AD B2C

Customer accounts are managed in Azure AD B2C. It supports self sign up, profile editing and 3rd part identity providers.

You will need to create a B2C tenant and an app. You will also need to policies:

  1. Sign in or sign up policy
  2. Profile edit policy

You may also find this post useful when setting you your application.

SQL Database

BookFast.Facility.Data and BookFast.Booking.Data projects contain EFCore migrations to set up you SQL database schema.

Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is used as a message broker for integration events.

Please make sure to provision a single topic with 3 subscriptions:

Also provision 2 notification queues:

Azure Search

BookFast.Search.Adapter can be run from the command line as dotnet run provision in order to create an index in your Azure Search service. It will require the following parameters to be defined in user secrets: