🗳️ Pollster System - Full Stack Deployment

This repo contains a complete system for deploying the Pollster real-time polling backend on Kubernetes using Helm, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Istio service mesh.

📦 Included Components

• API Server (FastAPI / Django)
• WebSocket Gateway
• Redis (Streams, Pub/Sub, Hashes)
• PostgreSQL
• Worker Pool (Aggregator, Milestone, Notification)
• Grafana + Prometheus monitoring
• Jaeger + Kiali (via Istio)

🚀 Getting Started

make deploy

This will:

• Start Minikube
• Build Docker images
• Install Istio
• Deploy the Pollster system with Helm
• Enable observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali)

🔍 Observability

Tool	Port	Description
Grafana	3000	Dashboards (CPU, Redis, etc.)
Prometheus	9090	Metrics scraping engine
Jaeger	16686	Distributed tracing
Kiali	20001	Istio traffic topology & graph

🔐 Namespace

All components are deployed to a namespace called pollster with Istio sidecar injection enabled.

🧹 Cleanup

make clean

Destroys the cluster and removes all resources.