Apache Apex test sandbox

This repository contains a ready to use Apache Apex test sandbox docker image in which hadoop and apex is preinstalled and running. All one need to do is launch this docker image and start playing with apex.

Basic

Run apex docker container

This will create and start a docker container from the docker image.

docker run -it --name=apex-sandbox apacheapex/sandbox

Start apex cli after launching docker container

apex@62550653e2d8:~$ apex
Apex CLI 3.5.0 15.06.2016 @ 08:20:44 UTC rev: 85a2bdd branch: 85a2bdd9bfce49a904b45a4d0d015434d1a89216
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Advanced

Linux user information

Username: apex

Password: apex

NOTE: User “apex” is added in sudoers list and is provided with root privileges.

Run docker container with host directory mounted

This will create and start a docker container and docker images while mounting local filesystem directory as a mount point inside docker container.

docker run -it --name=apex-sandbox -v /local/path/to/mount:/mount_location apacheapex/sandbox

Start already created docker container

docker start -i apex-sandbox

Hadoop and YARN WebUI from local machine

Following command will map yarn and hadoop ports exposed inside docker container to be mapped to ports of host machine.

docker run -it --name=apex-sandbox -p 50070:50070 -p 8088:8088 apacheapex/sandbox

After docker has started, one can point host machine's browser to localhost:50070 and localhost:8088 to see hadoop and yarn WebUI respectively.