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Dockerize your own Game of Thrones’ API

This article will demonstrate a fun and useful use case of docker, where we will create and deploy to production a custom-made API. In our case, it will provide information about the episodes of the TV show “Game of Thrones”.

This sequence diagram illustrates the steps that will be taken in the whole process of deploying our API. In short, Terraform will create the new server on Digital Ocean, then, from the new server, we will clone the API repository from GitHub and start the containers with “docker compose”.

Regarding the API access, if you wish to use a similar project for professional/commercial usages, it is recommended to implement some mechanism to limit/control the API requests.