Arvbox is a Docker-based self-contained development, demonstration and testing environment for Arvados. It is not intended for production use.
$ curl -O https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blob_plain/refs/heads/2.6-release:/tools/arvbox/bin/arvbox
$ chmod +x arvbox
$ ./arvbox start localdemo
Arvados-in-a-box starting
Waiting for workbench2 websockets workbench webshell keep-web controller keepproxy api keepstore1 arv-git-httpd keepstore0 sdk vm ...
...
Your Arvados-in-a-box is ready!
$ ./arvbox adduser demouser demo@example.com
Password for demouser:
Added demouser
You will then need to install the arvbox root certificate . After that, you can now log in to Workbench as demouser with the password you selected.
Arvbox creates root certificate to authorize Arvbox services. Installing the root certificate into your web browser will prevent security errors when accessing Arvbox services with your web browser. Every Arvbox instance generates a new root signing key.
Export the root certificate with this command:
$ ./arvbox root-cert Certificate copied to /home/ubuntu/arvbox-root-cert.crt
Installing the root certificate into your web browser will prevent security errors when accessing Arvados services with your web browser.
chrome://settings/certificates in the URL bar.arvbox-root-cert.crtabout:preferences#privacy in the URL bararvbox-root-cert.crtThe process will be similar to that of Chrome and Firefox, but the exact user interface will be different. If you can’t figure it out, try searching for “how do I install a custom certificate authority in (my browser)”.
To access your Arvados instance using command line clients (such as arv-get and arv-put) without security errors, install the certificate into the OS certificate storage.
Important the certificate file added to ca-certificates must have the extension .crt or it won’t be recognized.
cp arvbox-root-cert.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/arvados-snakeoil-ca.crt
/usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates
cp arvbox-root-cert.crt /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
/usr/bin/update-ca-trust
$ arvbox
Arvados-in-a-box https://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html
start|run <config> [tag] start arvbox container
stop stop arvbox container
restart <config> stop, then run again
status print some information about current arvbox
ip print arvbox docker container ip address
host print arvbox published host
shell enter shell as root
ashell enter shell as 'arvbox'
psql enter postgres console
open open arvbox workbench in a web browser
root-cert get copy of root certificate
update <config> stop, pull latest image, run
build <config> build arvbox Docker image
reboot <config> stop, build arvbox Docker image, run
rebuild <config> build arvbox Docker image, no layer cache
checkpoint create database backup
restore restore checkpoint
hotreset reset database and restart API without restarting container
reset delete arvbox arvados data (be careful!)
destroy delete all arvbox code and data (be careful!)
log <service> tail log of specified service
ls <options> list directories inside arvbox
cat <files> get contents of files inside arvbox
pipe run a bash script piped in from stdin
sv <start|stop|restart> <service>
change state of service inside arvbox
clone <from> <to> clone dev arvbox
adduser <username> <email> [password]
add a user login
removeuser <username>
remove user login
listusers list user logins
Development configuration. Boots a complete Arvados environment inside the container. The “arvados” and “arvados-dev” code directories along data directories “postgres”, “var”, “passenger” and “gems” are bind mounted from the host file system for easy access and persistence across container rebuilds. Services are bound to the Docker container’s network IP address and can only be accessed on the local host.
In “dev” mode, you can override the default autogenerated settings of Rails projects by adding “application.yml.override” to any Rails project (api, workbench). This can be used to test out API server settings or point Workbench at an alternate API server.
Demo configuration. Boots a complete Arvados environment inside the container. Unlike the development configuration, code directories are included in the demo image, and data directories are stored in a separate data volume container. Services are bound to the Docker container’s network IP address and can only be accessed on the local host.
Starts postgres and initializes the API server, then runs the Arvados test suite. Will pass command line arguments to test runner. Supports test runner interactive mode.
Starts a minimal container with no services and the host’s $HOME bind mounted inside the container, then enters an interactive login shell. Intended to make it convenient to use tools installed in arvbox that don’t require services.
Publicly accessible development configuration. Similar to ‘dev’ except that service ports are published to the host’s IP address and can accessed by anyone who can connect to the host system. See below for more information. WARNING! The public arvbox configuration is NOT SECURE and must not be placed on a public IP address or used for production work.
Publicly accessible development configuration. Similar to ‘localdemo’ except that service ports are published to the host’s IP address and can accessed by anyone who can connect to the host system. See below for more information. WARNING! The public arvbox configuration is NOT SECURE and must not be placed on a public IP address or used for production work.
The location of Dockerfile.base and associated files used by “arvbox build”.
default: result of $(readlink -f $(dirname $0)/../lib/arvbox/docker)
The name of the Docker container to manipulate.
default: arvbox
The base directory to store persistent data for arvbox containers.
default: $HOME/.arvbox
The base directory to store persistent data for the current container.
default: $ARVBOX_BASE/$ARVBOX_CONTAINER
The root directory of the Arvados source tree
default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados
The root directory of the Arvados-dev source tree
default: $ARVBOX_DATA/arvados-dev
The IP address on which to publish services when running in public configuration. Overrides default detection of the host’s IP address.
The Arvbox section of Hacking Arvados has information about using Arvbox for Arvados development.
In “dev” and “localdemo” mode, Arvbox can only be accessed on the same host it is running. To publish Arvbox service ports to the host’s service ports and advertise the host’s IP address for services, use publicdev or publicdemo:
$ arvbox start publicdemo
This attempts to auto-detect the correct IP address to use by taking the IP address of the default route device. If the auto-detection is wrong, you want to publish a hostname instead of a raw address, or you need to access it through a different device (such as a router or firewall), set ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP to the desire hostname or IP address.
$ export ARVBOX_PUBLISH_IP=example.com $ arvbox start publicdemo
Note: this expects to bind the host’s port 80 (http) for workbench, so you cannot have a conflicting web server already running on the host. It does not attempt to take bind the host’s port 22 (ssh), as a result the arvbox ssh port is not published.
Services are designed to install and auto-configure on start or restart. For example, the service script for keepstore always compiles keepstore from source and registers the daemon with the API server.
Services are run with process supervision, so a service which exits will be restarted. Dependencies between services are handled by repeatedly trying and failing the service script until dependencies are fulfilled (by other service scripts) enabling the service script to complete.
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