Author: Daniel Ronson

• REST microservices
• Create and manage playlists
• Generate XSPF format playlist
• Servies: XMLGEN, playlists, tracks, descriptions, users
• Flask web framework

• Running on a Linux OS
• Python3 installed.
• Flask installed.
• Kong Installed, running, and configured
• Minio Installed, running, and populated with tracks
• install python requets
• install cassandra driver for python

1. export FLASK_APP=tracks.py
2. chmod +x populatedb_curl.sh foreman.sh ringbalancer.sh kongconfig.sh
3. ./kongconfig.sh ` Initializes Kong
4. ./ringbalancer.sh Configures load balancer
5. python cassandra_config.py creates database schema 5 ./foreman.sh Spawns desired amount of each service, I configured 3 of each in Kong
6. ./populatedb_curl.sh Populates database with content

• Consume any endpoint describbed in API documentation through load balancer or by exact address
• Generate XSPF playlists by using the XMLGEN.py microservice
• Note: Music files must be stored in minio to actually listen to the playlist

• access load balancer at localhost:8000//<serviceEndpoint
• example query: localhost:8000/playlist/playlist/all