[Apiman-user] Creating resources using Docker image

[Jorge Morales Pou]

And do not forget that etcd is the registry used in OpenShift, so can be
convenient to think in using as state-sharing server etcd as well.


2015-07-23 17:57 GMT+02:00 Eric Wittmann <eric.wittmann at redhat.com>:

> +1 - in production you would want separate docker containers for the API
> Manager vs. the API Gateway.  We don't have these docker
> images/containers defined yet.
>
> As for scaling out the gateway - my suggestion for deployments is to
> have a single logical gateway made up of multiple identical (clustered)
> gateway docker containers.  The gateway image would not have any
> bootstrapping to do.  But each gateway container would connect to the
> same state-sharing server (e.g. elasticsearch or infinispan).  Thus they
> all share registry info and rate limiting state, etc.  It also means
> that a new gateway node can be spun up easily.
>
> -Eric
>
> On 7/23/2015 10:28 AM, Keith Babo wrote:
> > Interesting discussion.  Another aspect to consider here is how the
> docker image will work with various deployment architectures.  For the
> “kick the tires” use case, I expect you will want all of apiman (admin
> server/console, gateway) and all of the configuration built into your
> image.  Makes it really easy to get off and running with a known state.
> >
> > In the “production” use case, I wonder if things will change a bit.  In
> that scenario, I can see the need for separate images for the gateway and
> for the admin server/console.  This would allow the gateway containers to
> scale up independent of the admin container.  Does baking the config into
> the image make sense here?  Maybe it does for initial configuration, but
> you’ll also need a way to pull configuration into new gateway containers as
> they scale up.
> >
> > cheers,
> > keith
> >
> >> On Jul 23, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Eric Wittmann <eric.wittmann at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think it would be possible to have a run-once shell script.  Either by
> >> writing/checking some sort of "already run" file.  Or else by querying
> >> apiman to see if a particular entity exists.  For example, query to see
> >> if "My-Custom-Organization" exists ... if it does then skip the script.
> >>   If not, then run the multitude of curl commands to do what you want.
> >>
> >> -Eric
> >>
> >> On 7/23/2015 7:48 AM, Arun Gupta wrote:
> >>> I've been thinking something on those lines.
> >>>
> >>> - Invoke shell script from Dockerfile
> >>> - Start API Man
> >>> - Run shell scripts
> >>> - Shut it down
> >>> - Go back to Dockerfile which will then start it
> >>>
> >>> Will share something, stay tuned.
> >>>
> >>> Arun
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Eric Wittmann <
> eric.wittmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> You are probably more deft with docker than I am, but perhaps a shell
> script
> >>>> could be used to send a bunch of curl commands?
> >>>>
> >>>> -Eric
> >>>>
> >>>> On 7/23/2015 7:35 AM, Arun Gupta wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What is the recommended design pattern to extend the Dockerfile in
> the
> >>>>> meanwhile?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Arun
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Eric Wittmann <
> eric.wittmann at redhat.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> That is not currently a feature.  But I've now added a JIRA for it,
> >>>>>> since it seems like a nice idea (especially for extending the docker
> >>>>>> container).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/APIMAN-566
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -Eric
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 7/23/2015 3:47 AM, Tim Dudgeon wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This indeed would be very useful.
> >>>>>>> Tim
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 23/07/2015 04:44, Arun Gupta wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I've created a Dockerfile [1] that will attempt to create
> different
> >>>>>>>> resources. Is there any standard format where I can drop
> >>>>>>>> <organization>.yml in a pre-defined directory and API Man will
> read
> >>>>>>>> the resources defined there and create them?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This will simplify how the resources are created using Docker. The
> >>>>>>>> samples at [2] do not show that.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> [1]
> >>>>>>>>
> https://github.com/arun-gupta/microservices/blob/master/microservice/docker/Dockerfile
> >>>>>>>> [2] https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/jboss/apiman-wildfly/
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Arun
> >>>>>>>>
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