A-Stack in Docker Container

Owned by Baseer Khan
Last updated: Jan 30, 2018
2 min read

A-Stack can be started within the docker container. This section provides detailed steps to create docker image with A-Stack.


Prerequisites

Download and Install Docker for Enterprise

Docker Build Steps

  1. Ready of build TQL applications?
  2. Download A-Stack
  3. Develop models (or protocol extensions and Library functions (if any)).
  4. Upload A-Stack with auto-deployable models and application code to you local repository
  5. Create a Docker build file. The build file does the following -
    1. Gets Latest Ubuntu
    2. Installs JDK8 on Ubuntu
    3. Set any environment variables
    4. Download your build from local build repository.
      1. Note that the build must contain A-Stack Runtime (Prime, Configurator, or Regular). 
      2. If the A-Stack Runtime is a Prime, make sure your models are included as part of the prime. Please refer to Exporting Projects section.
    5. Expose any ports

Sample Docker Build file is provided here below:

Dockerfile to build Container Image with A-Stack
# Docker Container with A-Stack
# Based on ubuntu:14.04, installs A-Stack following the instructions from:
# http://docs.atomiton.com/manual/tutorial/install-tqlengine-on-ubuntu/

FROM ubuntu:latest
MAINTAINER Baseer Khan <bkhan@atomiton.com>
# Installation:
# JDK 8 is installed and running
# Install Java.
RUN \
  echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | debconf-set-selections && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y unzip && \
  apt-get install -y software-properties-common && \
  add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer && \
  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
  rm -rf /var/cache/oracle-jdk8-installer


# Define commonly used JAVA_HOME variable
ENV JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
ENV TQL_HOME /opt/myapp/latest/myappname

# Download mynappname:
RUN rm -rf /opt/myapp/latest
RUN mkdir -p /opt/myapp/latest
RUN wget -O /opt/myapp/latest/mynappname.zip http://xyz.com/myapp/mynappname.zip
RUN unzip /opt/myap/latest/mynappname.zip -d /opt/myapp/latest

EXPOSE 8080
EXPOSE 80
EXPOSE 443

WORKDIR /opt/myapp/latest/myappname

Useful Docker CLI Commands

List of Docker Images

docker images

List of Running Docker Containers

docker ps

Trigger a Build

From the local folder where Dockerfile is created run the command:

docker build --no-cache=true  -t dockerid/myappname:mytagname .

Push the build to Docker Hub

docker push dockerid/myappname:mytagname

Start the Container

docker run -d -p 8080:8081 dockerid/myappname:mytagname java -Xmx2g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath="`date`.hprof" -jar atomiton.tqlengine.jar

Stop the Container

docker stop <container id>

SSH into running Container

sudo docker exec -i -t 2b5541cc9e48 /bin/sh

2b5541cc9e48 is the Container ID; whose value can be retrieved using docker ps command.