This documentation covers how to stand up accumulo-proxy within a Docker container.
The guide covers:
proxy.properties fileIt is not recommended using this guide for a production instance of accumulo-proxy at this time.
Firstly you will need the tarball of accumulo-proxy, this is documented in the README.md but for simplicity run:
mvn clean package -Ptarball
Once you have the tarball (should be in ./target/ folder) then invoke the Docker build command to create a container image.
docker build -t accumulo-proxy:latest .
By default, the container image expects the following to be true:
You can start the proxy using:
docker run --rm -d -p 42424:42424 --network="host" --name accumulo-proxy accumulo-proxy:latest;
If you wish to create advanced proxy.properties configuration changes, you should look to volume mount these in when you invoke the docker run command, an example is:
docker run --rm -d -p 42424:42424 -v /path/to/proxy.properties:/opt/accumulo-proxy/conf/proxy.properties --network="host" --name accumulo-proxy accumulo-proxy:latest
Container networking can be a very specialised subject therefore we document two common practices that should cover the majority of use cases for development.
The proxy container must be able to access both Accumulo and ZooKeeper.
The ZooKeeper location can be configured in the conf/proxy.properties file, so you can override this to an acceptable value (see “Custom proxy.properties” section)
In order to communicate with Accumulo the container will need to be able to resolve the FQDN that the servers have registered in ZooKeeper. If using fluo-uno this is very likely the hostname of your development environment. We'll call this my.host.com and IP 192.168.0.1 for the rest of this document.
Host networking is the simplest mechanism but generally only works for linux hosts where Docker has been installed on ‘bare metal’ e.g. through an RPM.
You can test if this will work for you by executing the following steps
Start the accumulo-proxy container and enter it
docker run -it --rm -p 42424:42424 --network="host" --name accumulo-proxy accumulo-proxy:latest bash;
Once inside the container, execute the curl command to attempt to connect to the monitor webserver:
curl my.host.com:9995
If the terminal returns an error such as:
curl: (7) Failed to connect to my.host.com 9995: Connection refused
then your container cannot see the host, and you will need to look at the next section (Non-Host networking).
If you receive the HTML for the monitor web page then host networking will work for you and you can add --network="host" to each Docker command going forward.
An example of using host networking:
docker run --rm -d -p 42424:42424 --network="host" --name accumulo-proxy accumulo-proxy:latest
Note: You do not need to map your ports (-p) if using host networking, but we include it for clarity.
For more details see the official Docker documentation: Use host Networking
If you run outside of a single node linux installation, e.g. Docker for Mac, Docker for Windows or use a VM to isolate your Docker engine then you will likely need to take this path.
Docker allows you to supply additional addresses to be resolved by the container, and these are automatically added by Docker to the /etc/hosts
For each host add a --add-host FQDN:IP entry to your Docker run command, you can add multiple entries if need to, see the official docs covering network settings.
An example of using this approach:
docker run --rm -d -p 42424:42424 --add-host "my.host.com:192.168.0.1" --name accumulo-proxy accumulo-proxy:latest
Once completed you should stop and remove the container.
docker stop accumulo-proxy; docker rm accumulo-proxy;
It can often be difficult to know where to start with troubleshooting inside containers, if you need to enter the container without starting the proxy we support this:
docker run -it --rm -p 42424:42424 --network="host" --name accumulo-proxy accumulo-proxy:latest bash
The container is very slim so if need be you can add additional tools using apt.
If you wish to manually execute the accumulo-proxy in the container you can:
/opt/accumulo-proxy/bin/accumulo-proxy -p /opt/accumulo-proxy/conf/proxy.properties
Some resources for additional help: