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Reusable Component to Create Globally-distributed Applications with Azure Cosmos DB

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We recommend using Azure Native.

Azure Classic v5.81.0 published on Monday, Jun 24, 2024 by Pulumi

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    This example demonstrates the usage of Pulumi to create globally-distributed applications with Azure Cosmos DB as the backend and pluggable infrastrustructure as the web tier.

    The application shows several notable features:

    1. Easy global deployments - a config setting provides a list of all the regions to deploy and a single execution deploys across them all.
    2. Abstraction - the CosmosApp component - abstracts away all the common logic for a global app with Cosmos DB multi-region data distribution and Traffic Manager for routing the traffic.
    3. Multi-model - examples are provided for serverless functions, containers, and virtual machines, all fitting to the above abstraction.

    CosmosApp component

    The CosmosApp defines a skeleton for the application. While not limiting the type of compute resources, it creates the multi-regional pieces of the infrastructure:

    Cosmos App

    The application has three example of using this component with the following compute services:

    • Azure Functions
    • Azure Container Instances
    • Azure VM Scale Sets + Azure Load Balancer

    Prerequisites

    1. Install Pulumi
    2. Configure Azure credentials

    Steps

    Step 1: Create a new stack

    $ pulumi stack init dev
    

    Step 2: Log in to the Azure CLI

    You will be prompted to do this during deployment if you forget this step.

    $ az login
    

    Step 3: Install NPM dependencies

    $ npm install
    

    Step 4: Deploy your changes

    Run pulumi up to preview and deploy changes:

    $ pulumi up
    Previewing changes:
    +  azure-ts-cosmosapp-component-dev  create
    +  examples:azure:CosmosApp vms create
    +  azure:network:VirtualNetwork vnet-westeurope create
    +  azure:network:PublicIp pip-westeurope create
    +  azure:trafficmanager:Profile tmvms create
    +  azure:trafficmanager:Endpoint tmvmswesteurope create
    +  azure:cosmosdb:Account cosmos-vms
    ...
    

    Step 5: Check the deployed website endpoints

    Three endpoints are now available. For example,

    $ pulumi stack output functionsEndpoint
    http://functionscosmosfunc-rgcc15ea50.trafficmanager.net/api/cosmos
    
    $ curl "$(pulumi stack output functionsEndpoint)"
    Document 'cosmos' not found
    

    Go to the Azure portal and add a document with the ID “cosmos” to receive a non-empty response.

    Running Unit Tests

    The unittests.ts file contains two sample unit tests that can be run with Mocha:

    mocha -r ts-node/register unittests.ts
    

    Running Policy Pack

    The policy folder contains two sample policies that can be applied with the policy-pack argument:

    pulumi up --policy-pack policy
    
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    Azure Classic v5.81.0 published on Monday, Jun 24, 2024 by Pulumi