Bidly

Bidly is a microservice-based auction marketplace project. It is built as a DevOps/GitOps practice project using separate backend, frontend, and Kubernetes deployment repositories.

Project structure

bidly-backend/
├── bidly-backend-aunction/
└── bidly-backend-auth/
bidly-frontend/
├── bidly-frontend-aunction/
└── bidly-frontend-auth/
bidly-argo-cd/

Repositories

• bidly-backend-auth: Auth API service for users, login, profile, and password flows.
• bidly-backend-aunction: Auction API service for listings, bids, uploads, and marketplace data.
• bidly-frontend-auth: Frontend auth app.
• bidly-frontend-aunction: Frontend auction marketplace app.
• bidly-argo-cd: Kubernetes manifests used by Argo CD.

Main stack

• Frontend: React/Vite
• Backend: Go microservices
• Database: MySQL / AWS RDS
• Object storage: AWS S3
• Container registry: Docker Hub
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes: AWS EKS
• GitOps: Argo CD
• Traffic management practice: Istio, Kiali, DestinationRule, and VirtualService
• External access: AWS Load Balancer Controller with ALB Ingress

Deployment flow

1. Code is pushed to a service repository.
2. GitHub Actions builds and pushes the Docker image.
3. The workflow updates the Kubernetes image/version in bidly-argo-cd.
4. Argo CD syncs the Kubernetes manifests to EKS.
5. ALB exposes the application.
6. Istio can be used for traffic splitting and canary practice.

Useful commands

git submodule update --init --recursive
git submodule update --remote --recursive