.NET Web API for retrieving geolocations. Geolocation data provided by MaxMind GeoLite2.

To get started you will need:

• Docker installed on your local machine.
• .NET
• An IDE for building .NET applications such as Visual Studio

To get started, simply run the application in an IDE such as Visual Studio or issue the following command from the root of the project:

dotnet run --project GeoLocationAPI/GeoLocationAPI.csproj

Sample URL's:

• Swagger Definition:
  • http://localhost:5254/swagger/index.html
• IPAddress of your machine:
  • http://localhost:5254/api/v1/geolocation/
• Look up an IPAddress:
  • http://localhost:5254/api/v1/geolocation/8.8.8.8
• Healthcheck:
  • http://localhost:5254/hc

You can also run the project in Docker by running:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.development.yml up

Once the container is up and running you can simply do something like this:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:5254/api/v1/GeoLocation/71.168.176.139" -v

Sample Payload:

{
	"date": "2021-08-12T13:45:02.2587451Z",
	"ipAddress": "71.168.176.139",
	"city": "Trenton",
	"timeZone": "America/New_York",
	"continent": "North America",
	"country": "United States",
	"ipFoundInGeoDB": true,
	"message": "71.168.176.139 found in the GeoDB"
}

You can check the healthcheck by issuing something like this. Note that it will return ProcessArchitecture which is useful to see if the workload is running on Arm64 or X64. The HealtcheckIPToTest (in this case 8.8.8.8) is set in the appsettings.json files:

curl -X GET "http://localhost:5254/hc" -v

Sample Payload:

{
	"Status": "Healthy",
	"Duration": "00:00:00.0084379",
	"FrameworkDescription": ".NET 6.0.12",
	"ProcessArchitecture": "Arm64",
	"Results": {
		"GeoLocationHealthCheck": {
			"Status": "Healthy",
			"Description": "The healthcheck is healthy - 8.8.8.8 found in the GeoDB",
			"Data": {}
		}
	}
}

The AWS CDK is used to deploy the application to ECS Fargate and is protected with AWS WAF via the CDK for C#. Follow the instructions in the README.md.

Alternatively, you can use the Docker Compose for Amazon ECS integration to launch the application to ECS Fargate by using the Docker CLI. You can look at docker-compose-ecs-demo.yml to see a simple example. Note: the GeoLocationAPI project uses OpenTelemetry and since the Docker Compose for Amazon ECS integration currently doesn't support creating sidecars in the task definition, this simple example doesn't showcase the aws-otel-collector. To see that functionality, deploy with the CDK instead as mentioned above in the README.md.

To deploy to an existing Kubernetes cluster:

kubectl apply -f templates/

The geolocationapi.yaml manifest doesn't expose the service via a load balancer so in order to test do something like this:

kubectl exec -it busybox -n default -- wget -qO- http://{Service-IP}:{Port}/api/v1/geolocation/8.8.8.8