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August 26, 2016
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Running ThingWorx in Docker

  • August 26, 2016
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Does anybody here run ThingWorx 7.2 (preferably on Ubuntu) in docker? If so, can you please share your docker file for bulding such a machine?

I beileve it would be huge help for whole Developer Community​.

Thanks in advance.

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StefanBode12-Amethyst
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August 29, 2016

You can ask Marco Bratz from doubleslash. As far as I know they frequently use Docker. You can find him on xing.com

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PaiChung22-Sapphire I
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August 29, 2016

The short answer I believe is yes .. .the long answer .... I'm seeing if someone in Dev wants to contribute to this, since I know we use Docker in Dev.

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    jgabriel1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 30, 2016

    Thanks for reply let me know, if something comes up. (please see my addition below).

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    jgabriel1-VisitorAuthor
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    August 30, 2016

    On second thought, for minimal image and overhead would be best to hook it up together from these two images based on alpine linux:

    But still lacking experience though. 😃

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    jgabriel1-VisitorAuthor
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    October 11, 2016

    It is far from perfect and minimal, but it works, Posting it here, so anybody can learn from it and possibly improve it.


    It should work, if you copy TW installation files into tw directory and run docker-compose up in root folder. After some initial setup, you should be able to see TW instance on your localhost/thingworx port 80.


    File here: ThingWorx setup for docker.



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    Do11-Visitor
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    October 12, 2016

    Thanks Jan,

    This is very interesting, would you be so kind as to share your learning and the process you followed as well as the prerequisites?

    Thank you,

    Duan

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    rsharp11-Visitor
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    December 2, 2016

    Just wanted to share my how to to build up a TW instance using docker.

    Build an ubuntu server VM NIC bridged
    Login

    sudo apt-get update

    Install OpenSSH server

    sudo tasksel

    Back up sshconfig
    sudo cp -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config_backup

    Edit the config file to allow port 22
    sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config

    uncomment Port 22

    restart ssh
    sudo service ssh restart

    Get server IP

    ifconfig

    Log in from putty

    Install docker
    wget -qO- http://get.docker.com | sh

    Add your user to docker group
    sudo usermod -aG docker (username)

    exit

    Log back in with putty.


    Configure your docker directory


    mkdir (docker working dir)

    cd /(docker working dir)

    mkdir build

    Add your war file and tomcat-users.xml to the build directory. "filezilla"

    nano Dockerfile

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    FROM java:8-jre

    ENV CATALINA_HOME /usr/local/tomcat
    ENV PATH $CATALINA_HOME/bin:$PATH
    RUN mkdir -p "$CATALINA_HOME" \
    && mkdir -p "/ThingworxStorage" \
    && mkdir -p "/ThingworxBackupStorage"

    # && chown tomcat8:tomcat8 /ThingworxStorage /ThingworxBackupStorage \
    # && chown 755 /ThingworxStorage /ThingworxBackupStorage

    WORKDIR $CATALINA_HOME

    # see https://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/KEYS
    RUN gpg --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys \
    05AB33110949707C93A279E3D3EFE6B686867BA6 \
    07E48665A34DCAFAE522E5E6266191C37C037D42 \
    47309207D818FFD8DCD3F83F1931D684307A10A5 \
    541FBE7D8F78B25E055DDEE13C370389288584E7 \
    61B832AC2F1C5A90F0F9B00A1C506407564C17A3 \
    713DA88BE50911535FE716F5208B0AB1D63011C7 \
    79F7026C690BAA50B92CD8B66A3AD3F4F22C4FED \
    9BA44C2621385CB966EBA586F72C284D731FABEE \
    A27677289986DB50844682F8ACB77FC2E86E29AC \
    A9C5DF4D22E99998D9875A5110C01C5A2F6059E7 \
    DCFD35E0BF8CA7344752DE8B6FB21E8933C60243 \
    F3A04C595DB5B6A5F1ECA43E3B7BBB100D811BBE \
    F7DA48BB64BCB84ECBA7EE6935CD23C10D498E23

    ENV TOMCAT_MAJOR 8
    ENV TOMCAT_VERSION 8.0.37
    ENV TOMCAT_TGZ_URL https://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-$TOMCAT_MAJOR/v$TOMCAT_VERSION/bin/apache-tomcat-$TOMCAT_VERSION.tar.gz

    RUN curl -SL "$TOMCAT_TGZ_URL" -o tomcat.tar.gz \
    && curl -SL "$TOMCAT_TGZ_URL.asc" -o tomcat.tar.gz.asc \
    && gpg --verify tomcat.tar.gz.asc \
    && tar -xvf tomcat.tar.gz --strip-components=1 \
    && rm bin/*.bat \
    && rm tomcat.tar.gz*

    ENV JAVA_OPTS -Dserver -Dd64 -Xms1024m -Xmx5g -XX:+UseNUMA -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
    ENV CATALINA_OPTS -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

    COPY build/tomcat-users.xml $CATALINA_HOME/conf/
    COPY build/Thingworx.war $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/

    EXPOSE 8080
    CMD ["catalina.sh", "run"]

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Build docker

    docker build -t thingworx .

    Run, instance.
    docker run -d -p 8080:8080 thingworx

    Test connect to http://IP:8080/Thingworx

    default account is Administrator/admin

    You should use Docker shared volumes to get the TW storage directories (/ThingworxStorage and ThingworxBackupStorage) outside of the container. Example : docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v $HOME/TW/ThingworxStorage:/ThingworxStorage -v $HOME/TW/ThingworxBackupStorage:/ThingworxBackupStorage thingworx

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