snowbox

A local test environment for testing Snowflake

Building the docker container

docker build -t snowbox .

Running the test environment

The first step is to clone the snowflake repostory locally onto your machine. You must then set up the configuration file by running ./mktestenvconfig

This will create the file testenv_config that you may edit with the path to your local snowflake repository.

The command ./snowbox_run will run the snowbox Docker container and mount the snowflake repository to the container with the following command:

docker rm snow_test; docker run --name snow_test -p 8080:8080 -it  -v ${SNOWFLAKE_REPO}:/go/src/snowflake.git snowbox /bin/bash

Building snowflake inside the Docker container

Inside the snowbox container, execute ./script.sh --build to build and run each component of snowflake. You will not need to rebuild snowflake everytime the container is started. To run the broker, proxy-go and client components without building first, simply execute ./script.sh

Attaching additional terminals to the test environment

Open a new terminal and execute ./snowbox_run --attach. Excluding the --attach argument will prompt the script to attempt an attachment if the container is already running.