milli-vanilli

The QA instances of some services can tend to be less than reliable. The problem is that we rely on these services for our integration tests to pass and are often left waiting for retry after retry for integration tests to pass due to the flaky nature of these services. Blame it on the rain?

This project is a super simple way to return mock responses for such services. The initial implementation includes some basic SETI and Nomic responses and these will grow over time.

In addition, milli-vanilli can act as a high-level mock for top-level services like Topper Harley.

To Set It Up

nvm use
npm install
node start

This will start milli-vanilli listening on port 3456. You know it's true.

Once it is running you can make requests in this form:

http://localhost:3456/nomic/v1/accounts/507017973001/policy_keys

http://localhost:3456/seti/v1/accounts/507017973001/settings/account/product_type

http://localhost:3456/topperharley/v2/accounts/507017973001/players/DOES-NOT-EXIST

SETI I'm gonna miss you.

Advanced Awesomeness

You can also globally link the package:

npm link

And then you can start a server in any shell:

milli-vanilli

When working with Topper Harley you can set the following to have milli-vanilli used instead of the specified services.

export FAKE_CATHY_URL=http://localhost:3456/cathy
export FAKE_CMS_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3456/cms
export FAKE_NOMIC_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3456/nomic
export FAKE_SETI_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3456/seti

When working with projects using Topper Harley's internal access as a dependency make the following override:

export TOPPER_HARLEY_INTERNAL_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3456/topperharley

To Create a Tag, a Docker Image, and Deploy

cd milli-vanilli

npm version major|minor|patch

git push --tags origin master

docker build -t user/$USER/milli-vanilli:${git describe} .

aws --profile bc-deploys-ecr ecr get-login --registry-ids 286457800582 --no-include-email --region us-east-1

docker tag user/$USER/milli-vanilli:${git describe} 286457800582.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/players/milli-vanilli:${git describe}

docker push 286457800582.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/players/milli-vanilli:${git describe}

Then, make sure to modify all the services that utilize the module.