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Actian Hybrid DataConference2018 London

Actian Hybrid DataConference2018 London

ActianHybrid DataConference2018 London

ActianHybrid DataConference2018 London

Cris Ianculovici

Running Actian X in Docker

Principal Support Engineer

@crisianculovici

Agenda

▪What is Docker▪How Docker works▪Actian Vector – Simple Dockerfile▪Actian X Challenges▪Actian X Docker Demo

What is Docker?

What is Docker?

When designing and implementing systems there are a few challenges

▪Deployments: existing software may conflict with your application. Dependencies could be missing or have version mismatch.

▪Upgrades/migrations: you need to start all over

▪Maintenance: Differences between production and your test environments

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What is Docker?

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▪According to Docker, – over 3.5 million applications have

been placed in containers using Docker technology and

– over 37 billion containerized applications have been downloaded.

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Virtualization and VMs

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▪Advantages: running multiple environments on the same hardware, portability

▪Challenges: fat hypervisors –all the problems a hardware-based server could have. – Too much stuff you will never

need/use.

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What is Docker?

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▪Software that performs Operating System level virtualization also know as “containerization”– the kernel allows the existence of

multiple isolated user-space instances. Such instances, called containers

▪Docker is used to run software packages called "containers". In a typical example use case, one container runs a web server and web application, while a second container runs a database server that is used by the web application.

▪ In a way it’s a bit like a virtual machine, with some significant differences

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What is Docker?

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Layers• Server• Host OS• Hypervisor /

Docker engine• Guest OS (for VMs)• Bins/Libs• Applications

Scalability with Docker

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▪Swarm is a native clustering tool for docker

▪ It pools together several Docker Engines and exposes them as a single virtual Docker Engine.

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How Does It Work?

Images and Execution

▪ An image is a compressed, self-contained piece of software which must be unwrapped in order to use the functionality. It may contain any Software, Operating System, Service., etc.

▪ An image is an executable package that includes everything needed to run an application--the code, a runtime, libraries, environment variables, and configuration files (docs.docker.com)

▪ A Docker image is an image created by the sequence of commands written in a file called as Dockerfile.

▪ An image is created by running docker build

▪ The build is a non-interactive process

▪ Execution: A container is a runtime instance of an image--what the image becomes in memory when executed (that is, an image with state, or a user process).

▪ docker run

Actian Vector – Simple Docker File

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Running Actian Vector Community Edition using Docker

▪https://github.com/ActianCorp/Vector-Community-Docker

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Actian Vector Community Edition – Dockerfile

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Actian Vector Community Edition – Dockerfile

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Actian Vector Community Edition – Dockerfile

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Actian X ChallengesActian Licensing Model

Actian X Installation

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▪Setup Server– Hardware allocation– Operating System installation– Etc.

▪Download install package▪Start installation of Actian X▪Run lichostinfo

▪Obtain a license.xml file▪Add the new license.xml file to the

server

▪Complete the install

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Actian X – Creating Docker Image

▪No interactive install with Docker. The setup cannot be done in a single Dockerfile

▪Three separate Docker images will be created in the process of generating an Actian X Docker image. – The first image is to request a license

file, – the second is to be used as a template

with a given host ID taken from the original image, and

– the third is the final Actian X Docker image.

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Before running the script to generate the Docker image for Actian X:

▪Download the zip file containing the scripts and files that are required to create the Actian X Docker image from https://communities.actian.com/s/article/How-to-Run-Actian-X-in-Docker. Extract the files and place them in a directory (e.g. actianx-docker) that will be the base directory for the setup.

▪Download the current version of Actian X from http://esd.actian.com/product/ActianX/11.0/Linux_X86_64-bit and place it in the base directory (e.g. actianx-docker).

▪Download the latest Licensing Utilities file from http://esd.actian.com/product/Ingres/Ingres_Licensing_Utilities/Linux_X86_64-bit/Licensing_Utilities and place it in the request_license/ directory (under the base directory). Confirm that it is named ingres-linux-x86_64-license_util.tar.Z.

Once all the above downloads are completed, run setup_actianx_docker.sh and follow the instructions provided by the script.

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DemoShow how to create an Actian X Docker image and how to run the container

Thank you!