Single-docker container deploy

[amfarrell]

We need to have a container made for the entire application, including elasticsearch, tika, kibana, and other containers. This means we will need to have nested containers. See https://blog.docker.com/2013/09/docker-can-now-run-within-docker/.

Plan: [ ] Run a minimal container within another container, first on EC2 just to prove this out. [ ] Do that on OSx [ ] Run the memex-explorer application (without salt states but omitting external containers) in a container. [ ] Run the whole application, including subordinate containers, within a container.

[amfarrell]

@kriehl What is the deadline for when DARPA wants a single-container deploy?

[ahmadia]

This is due at the end of the month.

[ahmadia]

Needs: https://github.com/memex-explorer/memex-explorer/issues/550

Also needs a video for each "mini-demonstration" of functionality.

[brittainhard]

@ahmadia did you succeed with this?

[bovard]

I tried to build the docker container locally and looks like the docker file is referencing a branch that I'm not seeing: https://github.com/memex-explorer/memex-explorer/blob/master/docker/Dockerfile#L36 and https://github.com/memex-explorer/memex-explorer/blob/master/docker/Dockerfile#L126

[ahmadia]

Thanks @bovard - You should be able to use the master branch to build the Docker container, but you might run into some other problems. Is there a reason the local development environment (instructions on the front page) won't work for you?

[ahmadia]

Specifically I'm referring to the Local Development section here: https://github.com/memex-explorer/memex-explorer

[bovard]

@ahmadia I'm running into a few issues trying to build this locally and was hoping I could just run the docker :) Do you know if there is a semi-recent docker image that is pushed somewhere that I could pull and run?

[ahmadia]

@bovard - I'm much more interested in helping you resolve your local development issues. We pushed a functional Docker container a month or so ago (see the latest tag here: https://hub.docker.com/r/continuumio/memex-explorer/tags/ ), but the local development is much more up to date.

[bovard]

I'll give it another shot locally and let you know what error I run into. Thanks!

[ahmadia]

Absolutely, I'm glad you're digging into the code, please don't hesitate to raise issues here if you have any questions or send me an email (You can find it from my homepage)

[bovard]

I'll start a new issue for the failure I'm seeing. Created https://github.com/memex-explorer/memex-explorer/issues/678

[ahmadia]

I'm updating our Docker image today.