In this exercise assignment you will install BlueLeaks Explorer. You must have Docker and Docker Compose installed. If you don't, go back and follow along in Chapter 6.
You can find the source code and instructions for installing BlueLeaks Explorer at https://github.com/micahflee/blueleaks-explorer.
Start by creating a new folder called blueleaks-explorer
on your datasets USB disk, or somewhere else where you have at least 5GB of free disk space. Inside that folder, open a file called docker-compose.yaml
in your text editor.
Here's how I did it on my Ubuntu computer:
micah@rogue:~$ cd /media/micah/datasets/
micah@rogue:/media/micah/datasets$ mkdir blueleaks-explorer
micah@rogue:/media/micah/datasets$ cd blueleaks-explorer/
micah@rogue:/media/micah/datasets/blueleaks-explorer$ code docker-compose.yaml
Here's how I did it in PowerShell on my Windows computer:
PS C:\Users\micah\code> cd D:\
PS D:\> mkdir blueleaks-explorer
Directory: D:\
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 5/22/2022 7:06 PM blueleaks-explorer
PS D:\> cd blueleaks-explorer
PS D:\blueleaks-explorer> code docker-compose.yaml
Inside this file, copy and paste this:
version: "3.9"
services:
app:
image: micahflee/blueleaks-explorer:latest
ports:
- "8000:80"
volumes:
- /media/micah/datasets/BlueLeaks-extracted:/data/blueleaks
- ./databases:/data/databases
- ./structures:/data/structures
Change /media/micah/datasets/BlueLeaks-extracted
to the path to the BlueLeaks-extracted
folder on your computer.
If you're using Windows, use slashes (/
) instead of backslashes (\
) when specifying the path to the BlueLeaks data. For example, my data in Windows is at D:\BlueLeaks-extracted
, so I set that volume line to:
- D:/BlueLeaks-extracted:/data/blueleaks
Now, in your terminal, in the blueleaks-explorer
folder you just created, run:
docker-compose up
This will download the container image from Docker Hub and start running it on your computer. Here's what it looks like on mine:
micah@rogue:/media/micah/datasets/blueleaks-explorer$ docker-compose up
Creating network "blueleaks-explorer_default" with the default driver
Pulling app (micahflee/blueleaks-explorer:latest)...
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Digest: sha256:83ce8cec1b8d5ff4f2fffef50b750d8aef7318ae8bf01827e22dbb7f30e1692b
Status: Downloaded newer image for micahflee/blueleaks-explorer:latest
Creating blueleaks-explorer_app_1 ... done
Attaching to blueleaks-explorer_app_1
app_1 | * Serving Flask app 'app' (lazy loading)
app_1 | * Environment: production
app_1 | WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
app_1 | Use a production WSGI server instead.
app_1 | * Debug mode: off
app_1 | * Running on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
app_1 | WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
app_1 | * Running on http://127.0.0.1:80
app_1 | * Running on http://172.20.0.2:80 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
app_1 | 172.20.0.1 - - [22/May/2022 23:41:43] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
app_1 | 172.20.0.1 - - [22/May/2022 23:41:43] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Next, initialize the SQLite3 databases. Open a second terminal window, change to your blueleaks-explorer
folder, and run this command:
docker-compose exec app poetry run python ./initialize.py
This will take a long time to finish running, and when it's done the databases
folder inside your blueleaks-explorer
folder will have 4.7GB of .sqlite3
files in it.
Now, you can start using BlueLeaks Explorer by going to http://localhost:8000.