3 navsection: installguide
4 title: Arvados-in-a-box
7 Arvbox is a Docker-based self-contained development, demonstration and testing environment for Arvados. It is not intended for production use.
12 $ git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git
13 $ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
14 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
19 * Linux 3.x+ and Docker 1.9+
20 * Minimum of 3 GiB of RAM + additional memory to run jobs
21 * Minimum of 3 GiB of disk + storage for actual data
27 Arvados-in-a-box http://arvados.org
29 arvbox (build|start|run|open|shell|ip|stop|rebuild|reset|destroy|log|svrestart)
31 build <config> build arvbox Docker image
32 start|run <config> start arvbox container
33 open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
34 shell enter arvbox shell
35 ip print arvbox docker container ip address
36 host print arvbox published host
37 status print some information about current arvbox
38 stop stop arvbox container
39 restart <config> stop, then run again
40 rebuild <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
41 reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
42 destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
43 log <service> tail log of specified service
44 ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
45 cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
46 pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
47 sv <start|stop|restart> <service> change state of service inside arvbox
48 clone <from> <to> clone an arvbox
55 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.
57 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.
61 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.
69 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.
73 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.
75 h2. Environment variables
79 The location of Dockerfile.base and associated files used by "arvbox build".
80 default: result of $(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/../lib/arvbox/docker)
84 The name of the Docker container to manipulate.
89 The base directory to store persistent data for arvbox containers.
90 default: $HOME/.arvbox
94 The base directory to store persistent data for the current container.
95 default: $ARVBOX_BASE/$ARVBOX_CONTAINER
99 The root directory of the Arvados source tree
100 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados
104 The root directory of the Arvados-dev source tree
105 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados-dev
109 The root directory of the SSO source tree
110 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/sso-devise-omniauth-provider
112 h3. ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP
114 The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host's IP address.
116 h2. Using Arvbox for Arvados development
118 The "Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Arvbox has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
120 h2. Making Arvbox accessible from other hosts
122 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@:
125 $ arvbox rebuild publicdemo
128 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.
131 $ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com
132 $ arvbox rebuild publicdemo
135 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.
139 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.
141 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.