Kogito is the next generation of business automation platform focused on cloud-native development, deployment and execution.
To be able to efficiently execute Kogito services on the Cloud there's a need to have Container Images so it can be played smoothly on any Kubernetes cluster. There are a few sets images which are divided in three different groups which are the components, the builder images and the runtime images.
To interact with Kogito images, you would need to install the needed dependencies so that the images can be built and tested.
Mandatory dependencies:
Optional dependencies:
All the Kogito Container Images contains a base module that will calculate the JVM max (Xmx) and min (Xms) values based on the container memory limits. To auto tune it, you can use the following environment variables to instruct the scripts what value the min and max should have:
JAVA_MAX_MEM_RATIO: Is used when no -Xmx
option is given in JAVA_OPTIONS. This is used to calculate a default
maximal heap memory based on a containers restriction. If used in a container without any memory constraints for the
container then this option has no effect. If there is a memory constraint then -Xmx
is set to a ratio of the
container available memory as set here. The default is 50
which means 50% of the available memory is used as an
upper boundary. You can skip this mechanism by setting this value to 0
in which case no -Xmx
option is added.
JAVA_INITIAL_MEM_RATIO: Is used when no -Xms
option is given in JAVA_OPTIONS. This is used to calculate a
default initial heap memory based on the maximum heap memory. If used in a container without any memory constraints
for the container then this option has no effect. If there is a memory constraint then -Xms
is set to a ratio
of the -Xmx
memory as set here. The default is 25
which means 25% of the -Xmx
is used as the initial heap size.
You can skip this mechanism by setting this value to 0
in which case no -Xms
option is added.
For a complete list ov environment variables that can be used to configure the JVM, please check the dynamic resources module
When performing Quarkus native builds, by default, it will rely on the cgroups memory report to determine the amount of memory
that will be used by the builder container. On OpenShift or k8s, it can be defined by setting the memory limit.
The build process will use 80% of the total memory reported by cgroups. For backwards compatibility, the env
LIMIT_MEMORY
will be respected, but it is recommended unset it and let the memory be calculated automatic based
on the available memory, it can be used in specific scenarios, like a CI test where it does not run on OpenShift cluster.
The main purpose of this image is to be used within the Kogito Serverless Operator as a builder image, below you can find an example on how to use it:
FROM docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-sonataflow-builder:latest AS builder
# Copy all files from current directory to the builder context
COPY * ./resources/
# Build app with given resources
RUN "${KOGITO_HOME}"/launch/build-app.sh './resources'
#=============================
# Runtime Run
CMD /usr/bin/java -jar target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar
#=============================
If you run the image, it will start an empty Kogito Serverless Workflow application with Quarkus Devmode. This allows you to develop and to run quick tests locally without having to setup Maven or Java on your machine. You can have your workflows in your local file system mounted in the image so that you can see test the application live.
To run the image for testing your local workflow files, run:
docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 -v <local_workflow_path>:/home/kogito/serverless-workflow-project/src/main/resources/workflows docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-sonataflow-builder:latest
Replace <local_workflow_path>
with your local filesystem containing your workflow files. You can test with the example application.
After the image bootstrap, you can access http://localhost:8080/q/swagger-ui and test the workflow application right away!
The nightly builder image has been built and optimized with an internal nightly build of the Quarkus Platform.
There are 2 environment variables that should not be changed when using it:
That way, no new artifacts will be downloaded and you can directly use it.
The Kogito Component Images can be considered as lightweight images that will complement the Kogito core engine by providing extra capabilities, like managing the processes on a web UI or providing persistence layer to the Kogito applications. Today we have the following Kogito Component Images:
The Data Index Service aims at capturing and indexing data produced by one more Kogito runtime services. For more information please visit this (link)(https://docs.jboss.org/kogito/release/latest/html_single/#proc-kogito-travel-agency-enable-data-index_kogito-deploying-on-openshift). The Data Index Service depends on a PostgreSQL instance. The Persistence service can be switched by using its corresponding image
Basic usage with Ephemeral PostgreSQL:
$ docker run -it docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-data-index-ephemeral:latest
Basic usage with PostgreSQL:
$ docker run -it --env QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_JDBC_URL="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/quarkus" \
--env QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_USERNAME="kogito" \
--env QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD="secret" \
docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-data-index-postgresql:latest
To enable debug just use this env while running this image:
$ docker run -it --env SCRIPT_DEBUG=true docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-data-index-postgresql:latest
You should notice a few debug messages present in the system output.
The Kogito Operator can be used to deploy the Kogito Data Index Service to your Kogito infrastructure on a Kubernetes cluster and provide its capabilities to your Kogito applications.
The Kogito Jobs Service is a dedicated lightweight service responsible for scheduling jobs that aim at firing at a given time. It does not execute the job itself, but it triggers a callback that could be an HTTP request on a given endpoint specified on the job request, or any other callback that could be supported by the service. For more information please visit this link.
Today, the Jobs service contains four images:
Basic usage:
$ docker run -it docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-jobs-service-ephemeral:latest
To enable debug on the Jobs Service images, set the SCRIPT_DEBUG
to true
, example:
docker run -it --env SCRIPT_DEBUG=true docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-jobs-service-postgresql:latest
You should notice a few debug messages being printed in the system output.
The ephemeral image does not have external dependencies like a backend persistence provider, it uses in-memory persistence
while working with Jobs Services postgresql
variant, it will need to have a PostgreSQL server previously running.
The Jobs Services All in One image provides the option to run any supported variant that we have at disposal, which are:
There are 3 exposed environment variables that can be used to configure the behaviour, which are:
Note: As the Jobs Services are built on top of Quarkus, we can also set any configuration supported by Quarkus using either environment variables or system properties.
Using environment variables:
podman run -it -e VARIABLE_NAME=value docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-jobs-service-allinone:latest
Using system properties:
podman run -it -e JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dmy.sys.prop1=value1 -Dmy.sys.prop2=value2' \
docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-jobs-service-allinone:latest
For convenience there are container-compose
files that can be used to start the Jobs Service with the desired
persistence variant, to use execute the following command:
podman-compose -f contrib/jobs-service/container-compose-<variant>.yaml up
The above command will spinup the Jobs-service so you can connect your application.
The Kogito Operator can be used to deploy the Kogito Jobs Service to your Kogito infrastructure on a Kubernetes cluster and provide its capabilities to your Kogito applications
The Kogito JIT Runner provides a tool that allows you to submit a DMN model and evaluate it on the fly with a simple HTTP request. You can find more details on JIT here.
Basic usage:
$ docker run -it docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-jit-runner:latest
To enable debug just use this env while running this image:
docker run -it --env SCRIPT_DEBUG=true docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-jit-runner:latest
You should notice a few debug messages being printed in the system output. You can then visit localhost:8080/index.html
to test the service.
To know what configurations this image accepts please take a look here on the envs section.
Before proceeding please make sure you have checked the requirements.
To build the images for local testing there is a Makefile which will do all the hard work for you. With this Makefile you can:
Build and test all images with only one command:
$ make
If there's no need to run the tests just set the ignore_test env to true, e.g.:
$ make ignore_test=true
Test all images with only one command, no build triggered, set the ignore_build env to true, e.g.:
$ make ignore_build=true
Build images individually, by default it will build and test each image
$ make build-image image_name=kogito-data-index-ephemeral
$ make build-image image_name=kogito-data-index-postgresql
$ make build-image image_name=kogito-jobs-service-ephemeral
$ make build-image image_name=kogito-jobs-service-postgresql
$ make build-image image_name=kogito-jobs-service-allinone
$ make build-image image_name=kogito-jit-runner
We can ignore the build or the tests while interacting with a specific image as well, to build only:
$ make ignore_test=true image_name={image_name}
Or to test only:
$ make ignore_build=true image_name={image_name}
Build and Push the Images to quay or a repo for you preference, for this you need to edit the Makefile accordingly:
$ make push
It will create 3 tags:
latest
to push a single image:
$ make push-image image_name={image_name}
Push staging images (release candidates, a.k.a rcX tags), the following command will build and push RC images to quay.
$ make push-staging
To override an existing tag use:
$ make push-staging override=-o
It uses the push-staging.py script to handle the images.
Push images to a local registry for testing
$ make push-local-registry REGISTRY=docker-registry-default.apps.spolti.cloud NS=spolti-1
It uses the push-local-registry.sh script properly tag the images and push to the desired registry.
You can also add cekit_option
to the make command, which will be appended to the Cekit command. Default is cekit -v
.
CeKit can use modules to better separate concerns and reuse these modules on different images. On the Kogito Images we have several CeKit modules that are used during builds. To better understand the CeKit Modules, please visit this link.
Below you can find all modules used to build the Kogito Images
For each image, we use a specific *-image.yaml file. Please inspect the image files to learn which modules are being installed on each image:
There is two kind of tests, behave and bats tests.
For more information about behave tests please refer this link
To run all behave tests:
make test
CeKit also allows you to run a specific test. See Writing Behave Tests.
Example:
make build-image image_name=sonataflow-builder test_options=--wip
Or by name:
make build-image image_name=sonataflow-builder test_options=--name <Test Scenario Name>
You can also add cekit_option
to the make command, which will be appended to the Cekit command. Default is cekit -v
.
With the Cekit extension of behave we can run, practically, any kind of test on the containers, even source to image tests. There are a few options that you can use to define what action and what kind of validations/verifications your test must do. The behave test structure looks like:
Feature my cool feature
Scenario test my cool feature - it should print Hello and World on logs
Given/when image is built/container is ready
Then container log should contain Hello
And container log should contain World
One feature can have as many scenarios as you want. But one Scenario can have one action defined by the keywords given or when, the most common options for this are:
The Then clause is used to do your validations, test something, look for a keyword in the logs, etc. If you need to validate more than one thing you can add a new line with the And keyword, like this example:
Scenario test my cool feature - it should print Hello and World on logs
Given/when image is built/container is ready
Then container log should contain Hello
And container log should contain World
And container log should not contain World!!
And file /opt/eap/standalone/deployments/bar.jar should not exist
The most common sentences are:
CeKit allow us to use tags, it is very useful to segregate tests, if we want to run only the tests for the given image, we need to annotate the test specific or the entire feature with the image name, for example, we have the common tests that needs to run against almost all images, instead to add the same tests for every image feature, we create a common feature and annotate it with the images we want that specific test or feature to run, an example can be found on this common test For example, suppose you are working on a new feature and add tests to cover your changes. You don't want to run all existing tests, this can be easily done by adding the @wip tag on the behave test that you are creating.
All images have already test feature files. If a new image is being created, a new feature file will need to be created and the very first line of this file would need to contain a tag with the image name.
For example, if we are creating a new image called docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-moon-service, we would have a feature called kogito-moon-service.feature under the tests/features directory and this file will look like with the following example:
@docker.io/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-data-index-postgresql
Feature: Kogito-data-index-postgresql feature.
...
Scenarios......
For a complete list of all available sentences, please refer the CeKit source code: https://github.com/cekit/behave-test-steps/tree/v1/steps
What is Bats tests ?
From Google: Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash.
It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.
A Bats test file is a Bash script with special syntax for defining test cases.
Under the hood, each test case is just a function with a description.
To run the bats tests, we need to specify which module and test we want to run.
As an example, let's execute the tests from the kogito-s2i-core module:
$ bats modules/kogito-s2i-core/tests/bats/s2i-core.bats
✓ test manage_incremental_builds
✓ test assemble_runtime no binaries
✓ test runtime_assemble
✓ test runtime_assemble with binary builds
✓ test runtime_assemble with binary builds entire target!
✓ test copy_kogito_app default java build no jar file present
✓ test copy_kogito_app default java build jar file present
✓ test copy_kogito_app default quarkus java build no jar file present
✓ test copy_kogito_app default quarkus java build uberJar runner file present
✓ test copy_kogito_app default quarkus native builds file present
✓ build_kogito_app only checks if it will generate the project in case there's no pom.xml
✓ build_kogito_app only checks if it will a build will be triggered if a pom is found
16 tests, 0 failures
The best way to start to interact with Bats tests is to take a look on its documentation and after use the existing ones as example.
Here you can find a basic example about how our Bats tests are structured.
For the Kogito Images, we use the Jira issue tracker under the KOGITO project. And to specify that the issue is specific to the Kogito images, there is a component called Image that should be added for any issue related to this repository.
When submitting the Pull Request with the fix for the reported issue, and for a better readability, we use the following pattern:
Pull Requests targeting only main branch:
[KOGITO-XXXX] - Description of the Issue
But if the Pull Request also needs to be part of a different branch/version and is cherry picked from main:
Master PR:
[main][KOGITO-XXXX] - Description of the Issue
0.9.x PR cherry picker from main: [0.9.x][KOGITO-XXXX] - Description of the Issue