Mastering Kotlin

Deploying local Ktor services

To test our new service, we can easily deploy that service locally and validate its function. The local deployment of the service is configured through the application.conf configuration file that was generated when we created our project. That file should look something like the following code snippet:

// application.confktor {    deployment {        port = 8080        port = ${?PORT}    }    application {        modules = [ com.packt.ApplicationKt.module ]    }}

In this file, there are two key things:

1. We define the local port to which our service will be deployed and be available.
2. We define module as our static entry point with which to begin running our service.

The reference to ApplicationKt.module corresponds to the Application.module ...