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/2.3-release:/tools/arvbox/bin/arvbox
19 $ ./arvbox start localdemo 2.3.0
20 $ ./arvbox adduser demouser demo@example.com
23 You can now log in as @demouser@ using the password you selected.
27 * Linux 3.x+ and Docker 1.9+
28 * Minimum of 3 GiB of RAM + additional memory to run jobs
29 * Minimum of 3 GiB of disk + storage for actual data
35 Arvados-in-a-box https://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html
37 start|run <config> [tag] start arvbox container
38 stop stop arvbox container
39 restart <config> stop, then run again
40 status print some information about current arvbox
41 ip print arvbox docker container ip address
42 host print arvbox published host
43 shell enter shell as root
44 ashell enter shell as 'arvbox'
45 psql enter postgres console
46 open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
47 root-cert get copy of root certificate
48 update <config> stop, pull latest image, run
49 build <config> build arvbox Docker image
50 reboot <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
51 rebuild <config> build arvbox Docker image, no layer cache
52 checkpoint create database backup
53 restore restore checkpoint
54 hotreset reset database and restart API without restarting container
55 reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
56 destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
57 log <service> tail log of specified service
58 ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
59 cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
60 pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
61 sv <start|stop|restart> <service>
62 change state of service inside arvbox
63 clone <from> <to> clone dev arvbox
64 adduser <username> <email>
68 listusers list user logins
71 h2. Install root certificate
73 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.
75 # Export the certificate using @arvbox root-cert@
76 # Go to the certificate manager in your browser.
77 #* In Chrome, this can be found under "Settings → Advanced → Manage Certificates" or by entering @chrome://settings/certificates@ in the URL bar.
78 #* In Firefox, this can be found under "Preferences → Privacy & Security" or entering @about:preferences#privacy@ in the URL bar and then choosing "View Certificates...".
79 # Select the "Authorities" tab, then press the "Import" button. Choose @arvbox-root-cert.pem@
81 The certificate will be added under the "Arvados testing" organization as "arvbox testing root CA".
83 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.
88 <pre><code>cp arvbox-root-cert.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
89 /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates
96 <pre><code>cp arvbox-root-cert.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
97 /usr/bin/update-ca-trust
105 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.
107 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.
111 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.
115 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.
119 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.
123 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.
127 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.
129 h2. Environment variables
133 The location of Dockerfile.base and associated files used by "arvbox build".
134 default: result of $(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/../lib/arvbox/docker)
138 The name of the Docker container to manipulate.
143 The base directory to store persistent data for arvbox containers.
144 default: $HOME/.arvbox
148 The base directory to store persistent data for the current container.
149 default: $ARVBOX_BASE/$ARVBOX_CONTAINER
153 The root directory of the Arvados source tree
154 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados
158 The root directory of the Arvados-dev source tree
159 default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados-dev
161 h3. ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP
163 The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host's IP address.
165 h2. Using Arvbox for Arvados development
167 The "Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Arvbox has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
169 h2. Making Arvbox accessible from other hosts
171 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@:
174 $ arvbox start publicdemo
177 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.
180 $ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com
181 $ arvbox start publicdemo
184 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.
188 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.
190 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.