Running in a Docker Container

Using Iotellect Server in a container will be successful only when using a license server with a complex license that’s not relying to activation keys.

To install Iotellect into a Docker, proceed as follows:

1. Install Docker in a way suitable for your OS, for example:

$ apt-get install docker

2. Run Iotellect installer:

$ ./<Iotellect_full_x.x.x_unix-x64.sh>

3. Go to Iotellect directory:

$ cd /opt/Iotellect

4. Create a file with name Dockerfile in this directory and fill it with the following text:

# Dockerfile
# OS template
FROM centos:7

# Working Iotellect dir in docker image
WORKDIR /Iotellect
ADD ./Iotellect

# Next lines needs to enable working with widgets
RUN yum install -y xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
RUN yum install -y libXrender.x86_64
RUN yum install -y libXtst.x86_64
RUN yum install -y which

# Ports opened from docker. You could add all needed ports
EXPOSE 6460
EXPOSE 8080
EXPOSE 6480
CMD xvfb-run --auto-servernum ./iot_server -r

5. Run the docker build process:

$ docker build -t Iotellect .

6. Check the created image in the local docker registry:

root@ubuntu:/opt/Iotellect # docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
Iotellect  latest 32a4dd3d23e8 4 hours ago 1.272 GB
centos 7 328edcd84f1b 2 weeks ago 192.5 MB

7. Now you can run the application from the docker image:

$ docker run Iotellect

In addition, you can create a volume for storing data and mount it to docker.

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