navsection: installguide
title: Arvados-in-a-box
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+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
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Arvbox is a Docker-based self-contained development, demonstration and testing environment for Arvados. It is not intended for production use.
h2. Usage
<pre>
-Arvados-in-a-box
-
-arvbox (build|start|run|open|shell|ip|stop|reboot|reset|destroy|log|svrestart)
+$ arvbox
+Arvados-in-a-box http://arvados.org
-build <config> build arvbox Docker image
+build <config> build arvbox Docker image
+rebuild <config> build arvbox Docker image, no layer cache
start|run <config> start arvbox container
open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
shell enter arvbox shell
-ip print arvbox ip address
+ip print arvbox docker container ip address
+host print arvbox published host
status print some information about current arvbox
stop stop arvbox container
restart <config> stop, then run again
reboot <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
-log <service> tail log of specified service
-sv <start|stop|restart> <service> change state of service inside arvbox
+log <service> tail log of specified service
+ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
+cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
+pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
+sv <start|stop|restart> <service> change state of service inside arvbox
clone <from> <to> clone an arvbox
</pre>
h3. publicdev
-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. WARNING! The public arvbox configuration is NOT SECURE and must not be placed on a public IP address or used for production work.
+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.
h3. publicdemo
-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. WARNING! The public arvbox configuration is NOT SECURE and must not be placed on a public IP address or used for production work.
+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.
h2. Environment variables
The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host's IP address.
+h2. Using Arvbox for Arvados development
+
+The "Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados":https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Arvbox has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
+
+h2. Making Arvbox accessible from other hosts
+
+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@:
+
+<pre>
+$ arvbox start publicdemo
+</pre>
+
+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.
+
+<pre>
+$ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com
+$ arvbox start publicdemo
+</pre>
+
+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.
+
h2. Notes
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.