docker-flume

Docker container to easily launch an Apache Flume agent. Uses http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/ and a RUnit service to ensure running as a daemon.

Building container

docker build -t docker-flume . 

Setup and environment variables

The Dockerfile downloads a Flume 1.6.0 distribution to /opt/flume folder. Both Flume version and download URL can be overriden with the FLUME_VERSION and FLUME_DOWNLOAD_URL environment variables.

The default config folder is /opt/flume/conf. Available environment variables to setup Flume are:

• FLUME_AGENT: Flume agent name (default agent).
• FLUME_CONF: Flume config folder relative to /opt/flume (default conf).
• FLUME_CONF_FILE: Flume config file relative to /opt/flume (default conf/flume-conf.properties.template).
• FLUME_OPTS: Additional flags to pass to flume-ng script (default -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console).

Starting container

docker run -v /my/local/conf:/opt/flume/conf -e FLUME_CONF_FILE=my_conf.properties docker-flume