3 navsection: installguide
4 title: Arvados-in-a-box
7 Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
9 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
12 Arvbox is a Docker-based self-contained development, demonstration and testing environment for Arvados. It is not intended for production use.
17 $ git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git
18 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
19 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
24 * Linux 3.x+ and Docker 1.9+
25 * Minimum of 3 GiB of RAM + additional memory to run jobs
26 * Minimum of 3 GiB of disk + storage for actual data
32 Arvados-in-a-box http://arvados.org
34 start|run <config> [tag] start arvbox container
35 stop stop arvbox container
36 restart <config> stop, then run again
37 status print some information about current arvbox
38 ip print arvbox docker container ip address
39 host print arvbox published host
40 shell enter arvbox shell
41 open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
42 root-cert get copy of root certificate
43 update <config> stop, pull latest image, run
44 build <config> build arvbox Docker image
45 reboot <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
46 rebuild <config> build arvbox Docker image, no layer cache
47 reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
48 destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
49 log <service> tail log of specified service
50 ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
51 cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
52 pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
53 sv <start|stop|restart> <service> change state of service inside arvbox
54 clone <from> <to> clone an arvbox
57 h2. Install root certificate
59 Arvbox creates root certificate to authorize Arvbox services. Installing the root certificate into your web browser will prevent security errors when accessing Arvbox services with your web browser. Every Arvbox instance generates a new root signing key.
61 # Export the certificate using @arvbox root-cert@
62 # Go to the certificate manager in your browser.
63 #* In Chrome, this can be found under "Settings → Advanced → Manage Certificates" or by entering @chrome://settings/certificates@ in the URL bar.
64 #* In Firefox, this can be found under "Preferences → Privacy & Security" or entering @about:preferences#privacy@ in the URL bar and then choosing "View Certificates...".
65 # Select the "Authorities" tab, then press the "Import" button. Choose @arvbox-root-cert.pem@
67 The certificate will be added under the "Arvados testing" organization as "arvbox testing root CA".
69 To access your Arvbox instance using command line clients (such as arv-get and arv-put) without security errors, install the certificate into the OS certificate storage (instructions for Debian/Ubuntu):
71 # copy @arvbox-root-cert.pem@ to @/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/@
72 # run @/usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates@
78 Development configuration. Boots a complete Arvados environment inside the container. The "arvados", "arvado-dev" and "sso-devise-omniauth-provider" code directories along data directories "postgres", "var", "passenger" and "gems" are bind mounted from the host file system for easy access and persistence across container rebuilds. Services are bound to the Docker container's network IP address and can only be accessed on the local host.
80 In "dev" mode, you can override the default autogenerated settings of Rails projects by adding "application.yml.override" to any Rails project (sso, api, workbench). This can be used to test out API server settings or point Workbench at an alternate API server.
84 Demo configuration. Boots a complete Arvados environment inside the container. Unlike the development configuration, code directories are included in the demo image, and data directories are stored in a separate data volume container. Services are bound to the Docker container's network IP address and can only be accessed on the local host.
92 Publicly accessible development configuration. Similar to 'dev' except that service ports are published to the host's IP address and can accessed by anyone who can connect to the host system. See below for more information. WARNING! The public arvbox configuration is NOT SECURE and must not be placed on a public IP address or used for production work.
96 Publicly accessible development configuration. Similar to 'localdemo' except that service ports are published to the host's IP address and can accessed by anyone who can connect to the host system. See below for more information. WARNING! The public arvbox configuration is NOT SECURE and must not be placed on a public IP address or used for production work.
98 h2. Environment variables
102 The location of Dockerfile.base and associated files used by "arvbox build".
103 default: result of $(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/../lib/arvbox/docker)
107 The name of the Docker container to manipulate.
112 The base directory to store persistent data for arvbox containers.
113 default: $HOME/.arvbox
117 The base directory to store persistent data for the current container.
118 default: $ARVBOX_BASE/$ARVBOX_CONTAINER
122 The root directory of the Arvados source tree
123 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados
127 The root directory of the Arvados-dev source tree
128 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados-dev
132 The root directory of the SSO source tree
133 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/sso-devise-omniauth-provider
135 h3. ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP
137 The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host's IP address.
139 h2. Using Arvbox for Arvados development
141 The "Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Arvbox has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
143 h2. Making Arvbox accessible from other hosts
145 In "dev" and "localdemo" mode, Arvbox can only be accessed on the same host it is running. To publish Arvbox service ports to the host's service ports and advertise the host's IP address for services, use @publicdev@ or @publicdemo@:
148 $ arvbox start publicdemo
151 This attempts to auto-detect the correct IP address to use by taking the IP address of the default route device. If the auto-detection is wrong, you want to publish a hostname instead of a raw address, or you need to access it through a different device (such as a router or firewall), set @ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP@ to the desire hostname or IP address.
154 $ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com
155 $ arvbox start publicdemo
158 Note: this expects to bind the host's port 80 (http) for workbench, so you cannot have a conflicting web server already running on the host. It does not attempt to take bind the host's port 22 (ssh), as a result the arvbox ssh port is not published.
162 Services are designed to install and auto-configure on start or restart. For example, the service script for keepstore always compiles keepstore from source and registers the daemon with the API server.
164 Services are run with process supervision, so a service which exits will be restarted. Dependencies between services are handled by repeatedly trying and failing the service script until dependencies are fulfilled (by other service scripts) enabling the service script to complete.