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 $ curl -O https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/main:/tools/arvbox/bin/arvbox
19 $ ./arvbox start localdemo
21 $ ./arvbox adduser demouser demo@example.com
24 You will then need to "install the arvbox root certificate":#root-cert . After that, you can now log in to Workbench as @demouser@ with the password you selected.
28 * Linux 3.x+ and Docker 1.10+
29 * Minimum of 3 GiB of RAM + additional memory to run jobs
30 * Minimum of 3 GiB of disk + storage for actual data
36 Arvados-in-a-box https://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html
38 start|run <config> [tag] start arvbox container
39 stop stop arvbox container
40 restart <config> stop, then run again
41 status print some information about current arvbox
42 ip print arvbox docker container ip address
43 host print arvbox published host
44 shell enter shell as root
45 ashell enter shell as 'arvbox'
46 psql enter postgres console
47 open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
48 root-cert get copy of root certificate
49 update <config> stop, pull latest image, run
50 build <config> build arvbox Docker image
51 reboot <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
52 rebuild <config> build arvbox Docker image, no layer cache
53 checkpoint create database backup
54 restore restore checkpoint
55 hotreset reset database and restart API without restarting container
56 reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
57 destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
58 log <service> tail log of specified service
59 ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
60 cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
61 pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
62 sv <start|stop|restart> <service>
63 change state of service inside arvbox
64 clone <from> <to> clone dev arvbox
65 adduser <username> <email>
69 listusers list user logins
72 h2(#root-cert). Install root certificate
74 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.
76 # Export the certificate using @arvbox root-cert@
77 # Go to the certificate manager in your browser.
78 #* In Chrome, this can be found under "Settings → Advanced → Manage Certificates" or by entering @chrome://settings/certificates@ in the URL bar.
79 #* In Firefox, this can be found under "Preferences → Privacy & Security" or entering @about:preferences#privacy@ in the URL bar and then choosing "View Certificates...".
80 # Select the "Authorities" tab, then press the "Import" button. Choose @arvbox-root-cert.pem@
82 The certificate will be added under the "Arvados testing" organization as "arvbox testing root CA".
84 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.
89 <pre><code>cp arvbox-root-cert.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
90 /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates
97 <pre><code>cp arvbox-root-cert.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
98 /usr/bin/update-ca-trust
106 Development configuration. Boots a complete Arvados environment inside the container. The "arvados" and "arvados-dev" 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.
108 In "dev" mode, you can override the default autogenerated settings of Rails projects by adding "application.yml.override" to any Rails project (api, workbench). This can be used to test out API server settings or point Workbench at an alternate API server.
112 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.
116 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.
120 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.
124 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.
128 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.
130 h2. Environment variables
134 The location of Dockerfile.base and associated files used by "arvbox build".
135 default: result of $(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/../lib/arvbox/docker)
139 The name of the Docker container to manipulate.
144 The base directory to store persistent data for arvbox containers.
145 default: $HOME/.arvbox
149 The base directory to store persistent data for the current container.
150 default: $ARVBOX_BASE/$ARVBOX_CONTAINER
154 The root directory of the Arvados source tree
155 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados
159 The root directory of the Arvados-dev source tree
160 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados-dev
162 h3. ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP
164 The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host's IP address.
166 h2. Using Arvbox for Arvados development
168 The "Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Arvbox has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
170 h2. Making Arvbox accessible from other hosts
172 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@:
175 $ arvbox start publicdemo
178 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.
181 $ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com
182 $ arvbox start publicdemo
185 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.
189 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.
191 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.