Add Xapiand production ready docker container

[vit1251]

Most popular solution ElasticSearch provide Docker container production ready on https://hub.docker.com/_/elasticsearch

How about create some similar solution and provide user simple way to try Xapiand?

[Kronuz]

I absolutely agree... but what are the differences in that image, vs our own Docker image?

[vit1251]

Current Docker container store index inside container and it lost data when stop or restart container. May be use VOLUME to store index on host machine? Do u have benchmark and get any performance issue with VOLUME in Docker?

[cbess]

As far as I can tell, you can use the -v option to mount the /var/db/xapiand/ directory on the host. It worked for me. However, restarting the container is a different issue:

Node name 6f9e78432364 doesn't match with the one in the cluster's database!

How do I provide the node name upon startup?

Mount option:

-v /my/host/dir/xapiand:/var/db/xapiand

Full example:

docker run -p 8880:8880 -v /my/host/dir/xapiand:/var/db/xapiand --rm dubalu/xapiand:0.22.0 -vvv

BTW, many thanks @Kronuz for sharing this project! I'm loving the potential of seeing a viable and easy to setup ElasticSearch and Sphinxsearch alternative! Great codebase as well!

[Kronuz]

Thank you @cbess.
You can use --name NodeName as a parameter (or it should work) you can also set the XAPIAND_NAME environment variable. The default for the node name in Docker is the host name, so you probably can also request Docker to use a different hostname.

[cbess]

Awesome, I just tested it, worked perfectly! Thanks for the prompt response. I'm definitely excited to see this project become more visible!

Working command to have persistent Xapiand data in Docker:

docker run -p 8880:8880 -v /tmp/xapiand:/var/db/xapiand --rm dubalu/xapiand:0.22.0 -vvv --name myxapiand

@vit1251 Looks like we don't need any modifications for persistent data.

[cbess]

I think this can be closed out.