lab 8 Demo – Deploying the Algonquin Pet Store on AKS (ReplicaSet + Persistent Storage)

his video is the demonstration for Lab 8 – Full-Stack Cloud-Native Development (CST8915).
It shows the complete deployment of the Algonquin Pet Store microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including both Task 1 and Task 2 requirements.

🔹 What this video demonstrates
✅ Task 1: Deploy the full microservices application

Deployment of all services: order-service, product-service, makeline-service

Web applications: store-front & store-admin

Simulation workloads: virtual-customer & virtual-worker

RabbitMQ and MongoDB initial setup

Verification of all pods and services

Access to the store-admin and store-front interfaces

✅ Task 2: Improve reliability and persistence

MongoDB configured as a 3-node ReplicaSet

Each node using its own PersistentVolumeClaim

Demonstration of MongoDB HA and data persistence

RabbitMQ deployed as a StatefulSet with a persistent volume

Verification that queues and messages survive pod restarts

Full end-to-end flow of receiving, processing, and storing customer orders

🔹 What you see in the demo

All pods running in AKS

Live orders created by the virtual customer

Orders processed by the virtual worker

Orders displayed in the admin dashboard

ReplicaSet status in MongoDB

Persistent volumes for MongoDB and RabbitMQ

Fully functional system running end-to-end

🔹 Technologies used

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

MongoDB ReplicaSet

RabbitMQ StatefulSet

Node.js microservices

Persistent Volumes & Claims

LoadBalancer & ClusterIP services

Kubernetes Deployments & StatefulSets