Stroom resources

This repository provides various shell scripts and docker-compose configuration files for managing all the moving parts that make up the Stroom ecosystem.

Pre-canned Docker stacks

The build scripts in ./bin/stack can be used to create a pre-canned stroom stack that will run in Docker. The released stacks are available on github at github.com/gchq/stroom-resources/releases.

For information on how to use the pre-canned Docker stacks see the instructions here.

For more details on creating the docker stacks etc. see this README

Setting up a development environment

If you want to clone all the git repositories that make up the Stroom ecosystem then run the following command from the directory where you want all the repositories cloned in to:

bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gchq/stroom-resources/master/bin/cloneOrCheckStroomRepos.sh)

Once this has been run you can run that script again to check the status of all of the branches in those repositories.

stroom-resources/bin/cloneOrCheckStroomRepos.sh

Deploy

stroom-stats and stroom-proxy can be run using Docker Swarm, fronted with an NGINX reverse proxy. The ./deploy directory contains this setup.

Running in dev

1. Start Zookeeper, Kafka, HBase, and Stroom databases by running the runDevResources.sh script in ./bin.
2. Run the deploy script runDeploy.sh in ./bin.

Configuring the deployment

The runDeploy.sh script configures the deployment.

The dev resources all publish their ports to the local machine. NGINX and the Swarm of Stroom applications need this IP address. localhost won't do because they run in Docker containers and localhost means the container itself. This IP address is injected as part of the runDeploy.sh script in ./bin. This is needed in nginx/nginx.conf and in swarm.yml.

Extending

See ./deploy/templates/nginx.confg for routes, e.g. http://localhost/stats is mapped to stroom-stats.

Dev-resources

Runs Stroom's dependencies in Docker containers. Suitable for development but not production.

To use the docker-compose.yml you need to add the some entries to /etc/hosts on the host machine:

sudo bash -c 'echo "# For stroom resources" >> /etc/hosts'
sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 kafka" >> /etc/hosts'
sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 hbase" >> /etc/hosts'

To start a set of containers required for developing stroom you can use the ./bin/bounceIt.sh script. This script is intended for development use to provide an easy way of running parts of the stroom ecosystem in Docker.

When first run, bounceIt will create the file ./bin/local.env which contains all the default configuration values. This file is not in source control and thus can be tweaked to tweak modify the behaviour of bounceIt, e.g. configuring which services will be started, what docker image versions to use and configure various application specific settings. For example you may want to run stroom in an IDE but the rest of the stack in docker.

To see all the options for running bounceIt, run:

./bounceIt.sh -h