This is an anagram puzzle generator created as my trial project for Parse.ly. The purpose of the application is to receive a http query for a particular difficulty, and return a randomly rearranged English language word. The difficulty of the puzzle is the number of unique letters in the word (and not the length of the word itself).

This is available via an Ansible Playbook (below) that downloads and installs Minikube, and then deploys the application. The requirements are that Docker and Ansible are installed on the local computer.

To download and run the Playbook, run the following:

curl -o anagrams-playbook.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Toofty5/anagrams/master/anagrams-playbook.yaml && \
ansible-playbook anagrams-playbook.yaml

The application is ready when Ansible reports that the port is forwarded. Execution will stop here:

TASK [Forwarding Ports.  The application is now available at localhost:5000/anagrams?difficulty=5  Press Ctrl-C to exit.] ***

At this point, leave the Playbook running and start a new terminal session and send a query of your desired difficulty.

jay@anagrams:~$ curl localhost:5000/anagrams?difficulty=5
{"result": "EODVW"}jay@anagrams:~$ 

After exiting the Playbook, the application will still be running via Minikube orchestration, but the port will no longer be forwarded into the cluster. To re-enable port forwarding, enter the below command:

minikube kubectl -- port-forward deployment/anagrams 5000:5000 

To stop Minikube, run the following command:

minikube stop

This image is available on Docker Hub, and can be run as a standalone container with the below command.

docker run -p 5000:5000 toofty5/anagrams