Dockerizing a Riak service
The goal of this example is to show you how to build a Docker image with Riak pre-installed.
Creating a Dockerfile
Create an empty file called Dockerfile
:
$ touch Dockerfile
Next, define the parent image you want to use to build your image on top of. We’ll use Ubuntu (tag: trusty
), which is available on Docker Hub:
# Riak # # VERSION 0.1.1 # Use the Ubuntu base image provided by dotCloud FROM ubuntu:trusty MAINTAINER Hector Castro hector@basho.com
After that, we install the curl which is used to download the repository setup script and we download the setup script and run it.
# Install Riak repository before we do apt-get update, so that update happens # in a single step RUN apt-get install -q -y curl && \ curl -fsSL https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/basho/riak/script.deb | sudo bash
Then we install and setup a few dependencies:
-
supervisor
is used manage the Riak processes -
riak=2.0.5-1
is the Riak package coded to version 2.0.5
# Install and setup project dependencies RUN apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y supervisor riak=2.0.5-1 RUN mkdir -p /var/log/supervisor RUN locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf
After that, we modify Riak’s configuration:
# Configure Riak to accept connections from any host RUN sed -i "s|listener.http.internal = 127.0.0.1:8098|listener.http.internal = 0.0.0.0:8098|" /etc/riak/riak.conf RUN sed -i "s|listener.protobuf.internal = 127.0.0.1:8087|listener.protobuf.internal = 0.0.0.0:8087|" /etc/riak/riak.conf
Then, we expose the Riak Protocol Buffers and HTTP interfaces:
# Expose Riak Protocol Buffers and HTTP interfaces EXPOSE 8087 8098
Finally, run supervisord
so that Riak is started:
CMD ["/usr/bin/supervisord"]
Create a supervisord configuration file
Create an empty file called supervisord.conf
. Make sure it’s at the same directory level as your Dockerfile
:
touch supervisord.conf
Populate it with the following program definitions:
[supervisord] nodaemon=true [program:riak] command=bash -c "/usr/sbin/riak console" numprocs=1 autostart=true autorestart=true user=riak environment=HOME="/var/lib/riak" stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/%(program_name)s.log stderr_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/%(program_name)s.log
Build the Docker image for Riak
Now you should be able to build a Docker image for Riak:
$ docker build -t "<yourname>/riak" .
Next steps
Riak is a distributed database. Many production deployments consist of at least five nodes. See the docker-riak project details on how to deploy a Riak cluster using Docker and Pipework.
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