Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

Smoke test example

We will use an existing application that I have built that shows a list of users in a table. The application is called containerized-golang-and-vuejs (https://github.com/jbelmont/containerized-golang-and-vuejs) and it shows how to use the containers, Golang and Vue.js for reference purposes. The first thing we will do is to make sure that the application is running using a makefile task called make dev. This command does the following:

docker-compose up frontend backend db redis

To summarize, this command spins up four Docker containers and, when it is up and running, we should be able to hit http://localhost:8080. Now, in reality, a smoke test would hit a live running application but this is just for demonstration purposes ...