Introduction
- Users can build their own Docker images for Controllers.
- This article explains options how to create the Controller image.
Build Environment
For the build environment the following directory hierarchy is assumed:
controller
build.sh
build
Dockerfile
start-controller.sh
config
The root directory controller
could have any name. Consider that below build script by default will use the directory name and release number to determine the resulting image name.
The build script build.sh
and Controller start script start-controller.sh
are explained below.
Dockerfile
Docker images for JS7 Controllers provided by SOS make use of the following Dockerfile:
Explanations:
- Line 1: The base image is OpenJDK Java 1.8 (Debian based). You can run Controllers with newer Java releases, however, stick to Oracle, OpenJDK or AdoptOpenJDK as the source for your Java base image. Alternatively you can use your own base image and install Java 1.8 on top of this.
- Line 8 - 9: The release identification is injected by build arguments. This information is used to determine the tarball to be downloaded.
- Line 12 - 16: Defaults for the Controller ID and user id running the Controller inside the container as well as HTTP and HTTPS ports are provided. These values can be overwritten by providing the respective build arguments.
- Line 21 - 24: Environment variables are provided at run-time, not at build-time. They can be used to specify ports and Java options when running the container.
- Line 29 - 33: The image OS is updated and additional packages are installed (ps, netstat, bash, vi).
- Line 40 - 41: You can either download the Controller tarball directly from the SOS web site or you store the tarball with the build directory and copy from this location.
- Line 55: if a
config
folder is available in the build directory then its contents is copied to the respectiveconfig
folder in the image. This can be useful to create an image with individual settings in configuration files, see JS7 - Controller Configuration Items. Line 58: The
start-controller.sh
script is copied from the build directory to the image. Users can apply their own version of the start script. The start script used by SOS looks like this:- Line 61 - 63: The user account
jobscheduler
is created and is assigned the user id and group id handed over by the respective build arguments. This translates to the fact that the account running the Controller inside the container and the account that starts the container are assigned the same user id and group id. This allows the account running the container to access any files created by the Controller in mounted volumes with identical permissions. - Line 71: The HTTP port and optionally the HTTPS port are exposed to the Docker host. Both ports can be forwarded by environment variables when running the container, overwriting the build-time values. This is relevant only if users want to use ports inside the container that are different from the default values. In most situations the default ports should be fine and are mapped to outside ports on the Docker host when starting the container.
- Line 74: The start script is executed and is dynamically parameterized from environment variables that are forwarded when starting the container.
Build Script
The build script offers a number of options to parameterize the Dockerfile:
Explanations:
- Line 12 - 24: Default values are specified that are used if no command line arguments are provided. This includes values for
- the release number: adjust this value to the release of JS7 that you want to build a Controller for.
- the repository which by default is
sosberlin:js7
. - the image name is determined from the current folder name and the release number.
- the user id by default is the user id of the user running the build script.
- the Controller ID can be specified that is a unique identifier for a Controller installation.
- the HTTP port and HTTPS port: if the respective port is not specified then the Controller will not listen to a port for the respective protocol. You can for example disable the HTTP protocol by specifying an empty value. The default ports should be fine as they are mapped by the run script to outside ports on the Docker host. However, you can modify ports as you like.
- Java options: typically you would specify default values e.g. for Java memory consumption. The Java options can be overwritten by the run script when starting the container, however, you might want to create your own image with adjusted default values.
- Line 29 - 56: The above options can be overwritten by command line arguments like this:Running the Build Script with Arguments
./build.sh --id=js7-prod --http-port=14445 --https-port=14443 --java-options="-Xmx1G"
- Line 60 - 71: The effective
docker build
command is executed with arguments. The Dockerfile is assumed to be located with thebuild
sub-directory of the current directory.