DockerBox

Ridiculously simple system way deploy and test micro-services. It's an internal heroku for your company.

DockerBox is an PAAS solution for setting up a QA or DevInt environment of a company. It can be deployed in a server and can add more servers to the cluster it forms using Docker Swarm. It uses Docker-compose for deploying distributed apps.

• Presentation: Slideshare

Usage

• This can be used as a QA and Integration Testing environments of a company. Where the developers and QA engineers can enjoy the liberty to launch and delete as many instances of there application for testing or developer integration.
• Distributed apps can be tested by defining the relation between them. Please refer the screenshots.
• Images of the server can be defined by dockerfiles.
• Authentication is via Google Apps.

Installation

Hosting in AWS

• Launch an ec2 instance for the Dockerbox-Master server with ubuntu 14.04 image

• Add the security group to accept all TCP connection from anywhere.

• SSH into the created Dockerbox-Master and switch to root user before running the following command (sudo su or sudo -i):

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dockerx/dockerbox/master/install-master.sh | sh

• DockerBox is now up and running. Go to http://Dockerbox-Master_public_ip
• Register a wildcard domain (eg *.dockerbox.in) and map it to Dockerbox-Master_public_ip. If you don't want to register, it can be managed with your internal DNS as well.
• Open the application with the registered domain.
• Login to your application for the first time with the following credentials

Name: admin
Email: admin@dockerbox.in

• Go to the configuration page /admin/configuration
• Give the internal and public ip of the Dockerbox-Master at cluster.master of the JSON data in configuration page and update. Refer configuration for more options. Also add gauth.domain and domainName accordingly.
• Now the dockerbox environment is ready with single server in the cluster.
• Instruction for adding more servers to the cluster is given in the bottom of the configuration page

Screenshot

Configuration

• gauth : The propertie to give the GAuth credentials
• gauth.domain : This is for giving the complete name of hosted domain of DockerBox. Eg: www.dockerbox.in or beta.companyname.com etc.
• gaTrackingId : Google analytics tracking ID (Optional)
• domainName : The registered domain name.
  • dockerbox.in where the wildcard domain is registered as *.dockerbox.in
  • beta.companyname.com where the wildcard domain is registered as *.beta.companyname.com
• admin[Array] : List of Admin emails.
• underMaintenance[Boolean] : If true only the Admins can access your DockerBox installation.
• cluster.master : The master server Public and Internal(private) ips.
• cluster.nodes[Array] : List of cluser nodes Public and Internal(private) ips

For adding a new server to the cluster

• Launch a new EC2 instance same like Dockerbox-Master.
• SSH into this new server and run the below command after becoming the root user by running sudo su

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dockerx/dockerbox/master/node-setup.sh | sh -s <Dockrbox_Master Internal IP>

• Add the Public and Internal Ip of the new server to the cluster.nodes list in the format {"internal_ip" : "", "public_ip" : ""}

Author

• Alan Joseph (@alanjoxa)

Contributors

• Fayiz Musthafa (@fayizk1)

Feel free to write to us for any issues or support. PRs welcome!

License

MIT License