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/arvados/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 https://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html
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 shell as root
41 ashell enter shell as 'arvbox'
42 psql enter postgres console
43 open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
44 root-cert get copy of root certificate
45 update <config> stop, pull latest image, run
46 build <config> build arvbox Docker image
47 reboot <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
48 rebuild <config> build arvbox Docker image, no layer cache
49 reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
50 destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
51 log <service> tail log of specified service
52 ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
53 cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
54 pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
55 sv <start|stop|restart> <service>
56 change state of service inside arvbox
57 clone <from> <to> clone dev arvbox
60 h2. Install root certificate
62 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.
64 # Export the certificate using @arvbox root-cert@
65 # Go to the certificate manager in your browser.
66 #* In Chrome, this can be found under "Settings → Advanced → Manage Certificates" or by entering @chrome://settings/certificates@ in the URL bar.
67 #* In Firefox, this can be found under "Preferences → Privacy & Security" or entering @about:preferences#privacy@ in the URL bar and then choosing "View Certificates...".
68 # Select the "Authorities" tab, then press the "Import" button. Choose @arvbox-root-cert.pem@
70 The certificate will be added under the "Arvados testing" organization as "arvbox testing root CA".
72 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):
74 # copy @arvbox-root-cert.pem@ to @/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/@
75 # run @/usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates@
81 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.
83 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.
87 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.
91 Starts postgres and initializes the API server, then runs the Arvados test suite. Will pass command line arguments to test runner. Supports test runner interactive mode.
95 Starts a minimal container with no services and the host's $HOME bind mounted inside the container, then enters an interactive login shell. Intended to make it convenient to use tools installed in arvbox that don't require services.
99 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.
103 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.
105 h2. Environment variables
109 The location of Dockerfile.base and associated files used by "arvbox build".
110 default: result of $(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/../lib/arvbox/docker)
114 The name of the Docker container to manipulate.
119 The base directory to store persistent data for arvbox containers.
120 default: $HOME/.arvbox
124 The base directory to store persistent data for the current container.
125 default: $ARVBOX_BASE/$ARVBOX_CONTAINER
129 The root directory of the Arvados source tree
130 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados
134 The root directory of the Arvados-dev source tree
135 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados-dev
139 The root directory of the SSO source tree
140 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/sso-devise-omniauth-provider
142 h3. ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP
144 The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host's IP address.
146 h2. Using Arvbox for Arvados development
148 The "Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Arvbox has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
150 h2. Making Arvbox accessible from other hosts
152 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@:
155 $ arvbox start publicdemo
158 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.
161 $ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com
162 $ arvbox start publicdemo
165 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.
169 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.
171 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.