How to run a java software which needs RXTX on a raspberry pi

In my last posting i wrote about migrating my aircraft noise measurement station to alpine linux. There i had some problems with getting the RXTX library for Java running on a linux, which uses musl and not GNU libc6.

Why does my java application require RXTX? As stated on the RXTX page:

RXTX is a Java library, using a native implementation (via JNI), providing serial and parallel communication for the Java Development Toolkit (JDK).

Now i wanted to move to a raspberry pi. But this runs on ARM and the RXTX is only provided for x86/x64 systems.

But there is another way: ser2net

With this proxy /dev/ttyUSB0 can be mapped to a tcp port and java can access this without using RXTX.

Alpine Linux, Oracle Java JDK and musl?! - why it does not work...

Sometime ago i did some work with Alpine Linux (s. here) and i was impressed how tiny this Linux distro was and how fast it was running.

So i decided after nearly 6 years of running an aircraft noise measuring station (for dfld.de) with Ubuntu to change to Alpine Linux.

This station runs a software on Java and needs RXTX, because the microphone is connected via USB and is read over /dev/ttyUSB0.

What is the problem with this setup?

• RXTX needs a Java which is running on glibc
• Alpine Linux does not run on glibc

If you are not aware of this problem, you get some errors like

./javaash: java: command not found

and this happens even if you are in the right directory and java got the execute bit configured.

Alpine Linux changed to musl:

There are some other libc implementations (take a look here).
The homepage is https://www.musl-libc.org/:

 And a comparison to other libc can be found at http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html:

There are some workarounds to get applications build with glibc running on Alpine Linux, but i did not get to run my aircraft noise measuring station - i switched to Debian - because i needed a 32bit Linux for my very old UMPC...

Docker summary

Today just a summary posting of all my docker activities:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)
• Lessons learned - Logging
• Docker: How to limit memory usage
• Docker: Network configuration - none / brigde / hostname / dns entries
• Docker: Networking with docker swarm: creating new subnets/gateways/...

I think most of the postings are useful to run docker in your own infrastructure, some how to build applications and run them.
After reading Kubernetes: Up & Running i will move to cloud computing service. Just to see, what part of the configuration has still to be done and if deploying a microservice is easier inside a hosted cloud...

Docker: Lessons learned - Logging

After some time working with docker here my experiences:

Some days ago i created my own container with a minimal web service.

Here the ncweb.sh:

#!/bin/ash
sed -i  's/Hostname:.*/Hostname: '$HOSTNAME'/g' index.html
while true; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; cat index.html;}  | nc  -l -p 8080  2>&1 >> logfile; done 

This is the Dockerfile:

FROM alpine

WORKDIR /tmp

RUN mkdir ncweb

ADD .  /tmp

ENTRYPOINT [ "/tmp/ncweb.sh" ]

After building the image

docker build -t ncweb:0.4 .

And starting the container:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 ncweb:0.4 --name ncweb0.4

I was able to connect to the container and view the log:

To get the right command:

docker ps  |grep  ncweb:0.4 |awk '{print "docker exec -it "$1" ash"}'

and then use the output:

docker exec -it e4f9960fc8e5 ash

alpine:~/ncweb# docker exec -it e4f9960fc8e5 ash
/tmp # ls
Dockerfile  hexdump     index.html  logfile     ncweb       ncweb.sh
/tmp # cat logfile 
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.178.46:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en,de;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Cache-Control: max-age=0

Thu May 10 10:01:23 UTC 2018 request done

But this is not the right way.
If i change the ncweb.sh to

#!/bin/ash
sed -i  's/Hostname:.*/Hostname: '$HOSTNAME'/g' index.html
while true; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; cat index.html;}  | nc  -l -p 8080 ;done 

then you can do the following (after building a new container version):

alpine:~/ncweb# docker run -d -p 8080:8080 ncweb:0.5 --name ncweb0.5

9589f77fc289a3713354a365f8f08098279e6d0e893de99a0431d8fbd62c834a

alpine:~/ncweb# docker ps

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES

9589f77fc289        ncweb:0.5           "/tmp/ncweb.sh --n..."   8 seconds ago       Up 7 seconds        0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp   gracious_archimedes

To get the logs (which are written to STDOUT):

alpine:~/ncweb# docker logs -f 9589f77fc289

GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: 192.168.178.46:8080

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en,de;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.3

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Connection: keep-alive

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

Cache-Control: max-age=0

Conclusion: It is better to use STDOUT than local logfiles. Or even better: use syslog or other central logging mechanisms.

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)
• Lessons learned - Logging

Virtualbox: vboxdrv.sh: failed & Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare'

After updating to ubuntu 18.04 i had to reinstall virtualbox:

# dpkg -i virtualbox-5.2_5.2.10-122088~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb 
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket virtualbox-5.2 wird gewählt.
(Lese Datenbank ... 378316 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von virtualbox-5.2_5.2.10-122088~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb ...
Entpacken von virtualbox-5.2 (5.2.10-122088~Debian~stretch) ...
virtualbox-5.2 (5.2.10-122088~Debian~stretch) wird eingerichtet ...
addgroup: Die Gruppe »vboxusers« existiert bereits als Systemgruppe. Programmende.
vboxdrv.sh: failed: Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong.

There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.
Trigger für systemd (237-3ubuntu10) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für ureadahead (0.100.0-20) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1) werden verarbeitet ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Trigger für desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für shared-mime-info (1.9-2) werden verarbeitet ...

But this just failed with the following error (i am running my own kernel because of suspend to disk issues) inside /var/log/vbox-install.log:

test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (        \
echo >&2;                            \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";        \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";    \
echo >&2 ;                            \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /lib/modules/4.17.0-rc3/misc

and at the end:

/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c:92:40: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_get_bus_and_slot’; did you mean ‘pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 # define PCI_DEV_GET_SLOT(bus, devfn)  pci_get_bus_and_slot(bus, devfn)
                                        ^
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c:397:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘PCI_DEV_GET_SLOT’
     pPciDev = PCI_DEV_GET_SLOT(uBus, uDevFn);
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c:397:13: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
     pPciDev = PCI_DEV_GET_SLOT(uBus, uDevFn);
             ^
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c: In function ‘vboxPciOsDevInit’:
/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.c:648:17: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
         pPciDev = PCI_DEV_GET_SLOT((pIns->HostPciAddress) >> 8,
                 ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:312: recipe for target '/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/linux/VBoxPci-linux.o] Error 1
Makefile:1568: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/vbox.0' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2
/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.footer:101: recipe for target 'vboxpci' failed
make: *** [vboxpci] Error 2

Starting virtualbox shows:

The virtual machine 'Docker on Alpine LInux' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).

Fehlercode:NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Komponente:MachineWrap
Interface:IMachine {85cd948e-a71f-4289-281e-0ca7ad48cd89}

There are many postings out there how to fix this.
But is easier than everything written there:

Change to /lib/modules/4.17.0-rc3/misc and type:

modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe vboxnetadp
modprobe vboxnetflt

And after that everything works like expected.

Docker: How to build you own container with your own application

atThere are many tutorials out there, how to create a docker container with a apache webserver inside or a nginx.
But you can hardly find a manual how to build your own docker container without pulling everything from a foreign repository.
Why should you not pull everything from foreign repositories?

You should read this article or this:

But since each phase of the development pipeline is built at a different time, …

…you can’t be sure that the same version of each dependency in the development version also got into your production version.

That is a good point.

As considered in this article you can put some more constraints into your docker file: 

FROM ubuntu:14.04.

or even

FROM ubuntu:0bf3461984f2fb18d237995e81faa657aff260a52a795367e6725f0617f7a56c

And that is the point where i tell you: Create a process to build your own docker containers from scratch and distribute them with your own repository or copy them to all your docker nodes (s. here)

So here the steps to create your own container from a local directory (here ncweb):

# ls -l ncweb/
total 12
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            90 Nov 26 10:06 Dockerfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           255 Nov 26 11:29 index.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Nov 26 11:29 logfile
-rwxr--r--    1 root     root           176 Nov 26 11:29 ncweb.sh  

The Dockerfile contains the following:

# ls -l ncweb/
alpine:~# cat ncweb/Dockerfile 
FROM alpine
WORKDIR /tmp
RUN mkdir ncweb
ADD .  /tmp
ENTRYPOINT [ "/tmp/ncweb.sh" ]

Into this directory you have to put everything you need, e.g. a complete JDK or your binaries or ...

And then change into this directory and build your container:

ncweb# docker build -t ncweb:0.2 .

The distribution to other docker nodes can be done like this:

# docker save ncweb:0.3 | ssh 192.168.178.47 docker load 

For more details read this posting.


Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)

Java 10 released: java with some enhancements for running inside docker

After the release of Java 9 in october 2017 with its new features

• JShell with its special commands
• the new folder structure 
• and many more

Oracle released Java 10:

 A short summary of the new feature can be found
at https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/introducing-java-se-10
or you can take a look a the release notes:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/10-relnote-issues-4108729.html#NewFeature

My favourites are:

• JEP 307 Parallel Full GC for G1  Improves G1 worst-case latencies by making the full GC parallel. The G1 garbage collector is designed to avoid full collections, but when the concurrent collections can't reclaim memory fast enough a fall back full GC will occur. The old implementation of the full GC for G1 used a single threaded mark-sweep-compact algorithm. With JEP 307 the full GC has been parallelized and now use the same amount of parallel worker threads as the young and mixed collections.
  
  See JDK-8172890

and the docker enhancements:

• JDK-8146115 Improve docker container detection and resource configuration usage

The JVM has been modified to be aware that it is running in a Docker container and will extract container specific configuration information instead of querying the operating system. The information being extracted is the number of CPUs and total memory that have been allocated to the container. The total number of CPUs available to the Java process is calculated from any specified cpu sets, cpu shares or cpu quotas. This support is only available on Linux-based platforms. This new support is enabled by default and can be disabled in the command line with the JVM option:

-XX:-UseContainerSupport

In addition, this change adds a JVM option that provides the ability to specify the number of CPUs that the JVM will use:

-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=count

This count overrides any other automatic CPU detection logic in the JVM.

• JDK-8186248 Allow more flexibility in selecting Heap % of available RAM

Three new JVM options have been added to allow Docker container users to gain more fine grained control over the amount of system memory that will be used for the Java Heap:

-XX:InitialRAMPercentage
-XX:MaxRAMPercentage
-XX:MinRAMPercentage

These options replace the deprecated Fraction forms (-XX:InitialRAMFraction, -XX:MaxRAMFraction, and -XX:MinRAMFraction).

• JDK-8179498 attach in Linux should be relative to /proc/pid/root and namespace aware

This bug fix corrects the attach mechanism when trying to attach from a host process to a Java process that is running in a Docker container.

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)

Docker-CE on Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) (2)

Three months ago i installed docker on my ubuntu 17.10. At those days there was no straight forward howto on docher.com.

Now the installation is listed on docker.com:

The installation manual can be found here.

root@zerberus:~# apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl   software-properties-common
root@zerberus:~# curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -  OK
root@zerberus:~# apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88  pub   rsa4096 2017-02-22 [SCEA]
      9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A  E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88
  uid        [ unbekannt ] Docker Release (CE deb)
sub   rsa4096 2017-02-22 [S]
root@zerberus:~# add-apt-repository \
>    "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
>    $(lsb_release -cs) \
>    stable"
root@zerberus:~# apt update
root@zerberus:~# apt install docker-ce

And then a check:

root@zerberus:~# docker versionClient:
 Version:    17.12.0-ce
 API version:    1.35
 Go version:    go1.9.2
 Git commit:    c97c6d6
 Built:    Wed Dec 27 20:11:14 2017
 OS/Arch:    linux/amd64

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:    17.12.0-ce
  API version:    1.35 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:    go1.9.2
  Git commit:    c97c6d6
  Built:    Wed Dec 27 20:09:47 2017
  OS/Arch:    linux/amd64
  Experimental:    false

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)

Docker-Machine: how to create a docker vm on a remote virtualbox server

After doing some first steps with docker, i wanted to test docker-swarm. Because of the limited resources of my notebook, i was looking for a Linux with a minimal footprint. In the context of setting up VMs for docker-swarm i found a log of articles about doing that with the tool docker-machine.
It sounds like this tool can create VMs just with one command. (here the documentation).

So let's give it a try:
(You have to install docker-machine first, but you do not need to install docker itself)

~$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox test
Creating CA: /home/schroff/.docker/machine/certs/ca.pem
Creating client certificate: /home/schroff/.docker/machine/certs/cert.pem
Running pre-create checks...
(test) Image cache directory does not exist, creating it at /home/schroff/.docker/machine/cache...
(test) No default Boot2Docker ISO found locally, downloading the latest release...
(test) Latest release for github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker is v17.11.0-ce
(test) Downloading /home/schroff/.docker/machine/cache/boot2docker.iso from https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/releases/download/v17.11.0-ce/boot2docker.iso...
(test) 0%....10%....20%....30%....40%....50%....60%....70%....80%....90%....100%
Creating machine...
(test) Copying /home/schroff/.docker/machine/cache/boot2docker.iso to /home/schroff/.docker/machine/machines/test/boot2docker.iso...
(test) Creating VirtualBox VM...
(test) Creating SSH key...
(test) Starting the VM...
(test) Check network to re-create if needed...
(test) Found a new host-only adapter: "vboxnet0"
(test) Waiting for an IP...
Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
Detecting operating system of created instance...
Waiting for SSH to be available...
Detecting the provisioner...
Provisioning with boot2docker...
Copying certs to the local machine directory...
Copying certs to the remote machine...
Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon...
Checking connection to Docker...
Docker is up and running!
To see how to connect your Docker Client to the Docker Engine running on this virtual machine, run: docker-machine env test

Wow.
After this command inside my virtualbox a new machine shows up with 1GB RAM, 20 GB HDD (dynamic allocated), 2 network adapters (1x NAT, 1x host only).

But it is not possible to create VMs on a remote Virtualbox server. The CLI does not allow to give a remote server IP:

But for some other environments it is possible to deploy VMs on a remote site:

--vmwarevsphere-vcenter: IP/hostname for vCenter (or ESXi if connecting directly to a single host)

If your preferred virtualization engine supports remote servers, you can check here:

Nevertheless docker-machine is an excellent tool. If you are interested in creating a swarm, read this tutorial.
The homepage of the OS boot2docker can be found here.


Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)

Talking about Microservices: A journey to Docker / Snap / CoreOS / Unbuntu Core / Docker-Swarm

A few months ago (13th august 2017) i started my personal journey into this new hype called microservices:

 

I thought the best way for me to get in touch was to begin with CoreOS. Within 2 weeks i got some first impressions:

• Installing CoreOS on Virtualbox
• Core OS - a minimal linux? A quick overview: diskspace, mounts, commands, kernel, ...
• How to login via ssh (default password?!)
• Structure of the ISO image
• Customizing a CoreOS image/iso: Ignition

But after these steps i realized, that next step on this road is kubernetes. It is clear that cluster scheduler like kubernetes can not be run on a single machine - so i tried to get another access to microservices: Snap and UbuntuCore:

• Installing Ubuntu Core on Virtualbox
• Creating a snap containing only a shell script
• Running a webserver (caddy) with snap

In november 2017 it was clear, that both UbuntuCore and CoreOS are some building blocks for microservices, but i was not really on the right track.
Back to kubernetes? Kubernetes relies on containers. So i started with docker:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings) 

Nearly 3 months later i still did not get in touch with kubernetes - but i think docker swarm is a cluster scheduler, too. And it is really easy to run.

What will i do next? Some tests to failure/failover/failback scenarios. 

Docker-CE: How to modify containers with overlays / How to add directories to a standard docker image

After some experiments with docker i wanted to run a tomcat with my own configuration (e.g. memory settings, ports, ...).

My first idea was: Download tomcat, configure everything and then build an image.
BUT: After i learned how to use the -v (--volume) flag for adding some file via the docker command to an image i was wondering, wether creating a new image with only the additional files on top of standard tomcat docker image.

So first step is to take a look at all local images:

# docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
558MB
friendlyhello       latest              976ee2bb47bf        3 days ago          148MB
tomcat              latest              11df4b40749f        8 days ago          558MB

I can use tomcat:latest. (if it is not there just pull it: docker pull tomcat)
Next step is to create a directory and add all the directories which you want to override.
For my example:

mkdir conftomcat
cd conftomcat
mkdir bin

Into the bin directory i put all the files from the tomcat standard container:

# ls bin
bootstrap.jar  catalina-tasks.xml  commons-daemon-native.tar.gz  daemon.sh  setclasspath.sh  startup.sh       tool-wrapper.sh
catalina.sh    commons-daemon.jar  configtest.sh                 digest.sh  shutdown.sh      tomcat-juli.jar  version.sh

Inside the catalina.sh i added -Xmx384M.
In conftomcat i created the following Dockerfile:

FROM tomcat:latest
WORKDIR /usr/local/tomcat/bin
ADD status /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mystatus
ADD bin /usr/local/tomcat/bin
ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh" ]
CMD [ "run"]

And as you can see i added my index.jsp which is inside status (s. this posting).
Ok. Let's see, if my plan works:

#docker build  -t  mytomcat .

ending build context to Docker daemon  375.8kB
Step 1/6 : FROM tomcat:latest
 ---> 11df4b40749f
Step 2/6 : WORKDIR /usr/local/tomcat/bin
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 5696a9ab99cb
Step 3/6 : ADD status /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mystatus
 ---> 1bceea5af515
Step 4/6 : ADD bin /usr/local/tomcat/bin
 ---> e8d3a386a7f0
Step 5/6 : ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh" ]
 ---> Running in a04038032bb7
Removing intermediate container a04038032bb7
 ---> 4c8fda05df18
Step 6/6 : CMD [ "run"]
 ---> Running in cce378648e7a
Removing intermediate container cce378648e7a
 ---> 72ecfe2aa4a7
Successfully built 72ecfe2aa4a7
Successfully tagged mytomcat:latest

and then start:

docker run -p 4001:8080 mytomcat

Let's check the memory settings:

$ ps aux|grep java
root      2313 20.7  8.0 2418472 81236 ?       Ssl  19:51   0:02 /docker-java-home/jre/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xmx394M -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources -classpath /usr/local/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/local/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

Yes - changed to 384M.
And check the jsp:

Yippie!
As you can see, i have the standard tomcat running with an override inside the configuration to 384M. So it should be easy to add certificates, WARs, ... to such a standard container.


Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
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Docker-Swarm: How to run a mysql database...

After several tests with docker swarm (setting up a swarm, running with more than on master, running a webserver in a swarm) i am thinking about running a mysql database in a swarm.

If you are running a mysql database on one docker host, you have to set up a docker volume, because otherwise data inside the container is gone, if you restart your database container. You can follow this tutorial, which says, you have to run

docker run --name=mysql1 -d mysql/mysql-server:tag

but there is the persistent volume missing. If you try this one, you are on the right way:

docker run --name mysqldb --volumes-from mysql_data -v /var/lib/mysql:/var/l
ib/mysql -e MYSQL_USER=mysql -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=mysql -e MYSQL_DATABASE=sample -e MYSQL
_ROOT_PASSWORD=supersecret -it -p 3306:3306 mysql

The problem is, that you have to create a container, mysql_data which contains a volume.

What about running a mysql database just with a volume?

First idea is to create a docker volume:

alpine:~#  docker volume create mysql_data
mysql_data
alpine:~# docker volume ls
DRIVER              VOLUME NAME
local               mysql_data

 And then start the mysql database:

 alpine:~# docker run --name mysqldb  -v mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql -e MYSQL_USER=mysql
-e MYSQL_PASSWORD=mysql -e MYSQL_DATABASE=sample -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=supersecret -i
t -p 3306:3306 mysql
Initializing database
2017-12-10T12:25:38.890958Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2017-12-10T12:25:39.114910Z 0 [Warning] InnoDB: New log files created, LSN=45790
2017-12-10T12:25:39.192006Z 0 [Warning] InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.269224Z 0 [Warning] No existing UUID has been found, so we assume that this is the first time that this server has been started. Generating a new UUID: 3b5276c6-dda5-11e7-847f-0242ac110002.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.293895Z 0 [Warning] Gtid table is not ready to be used. Table 'mysql.gtid_executed' cannot be opened.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.296705Z 1 [Warning] root@localhost is created with an empty password ! Please consider switching off the --initialize-insecure option.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.734384Z 1 [Warning] 'user' entry 'root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.734823Z 1 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.735089Z 1 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.735325Z 1 [Warning] 'db' entry 'performance_schema mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.735530Z 1 [Warning] 'db' entry 'sys mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.735734Z 1 [Warning] 'proxies_priv' entry '@ root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.735969Z 1 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'user mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:39.736171Z 1 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'sys_config mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
Database initialized
Initializing certificates
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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unable to write 'random state'
writing new private key to 'ca-key.pem'
-----
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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unable to write 'random state'
writing new private key to 'server-key.pem'
-----
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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unable to write 'random state'
writing new private key to 'client-key.pem'
-----
Certificates initialized
MySQL init process in progress...
2017-12-10T12:25:42.948452Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2017-12-10T12:25:42.949739Z 0 [Note] mysqld (mysqld 5.7.20) starting as process 87 ...
2017-12-10T12:25:42.952799Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: PUNCH HOLE support available
2017-12-10T12:25:42.953188Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
2017-12-10T12:25:42.953550Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2017-12-10T12:25:42.953828Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier
2017-12-10T12:25:42.954120Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
2017-12-10T12:25:42.954451Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2017-12-10T12:25:42.954900Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2017-12-10T12:25:42.955173Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions
2017-12-10T12:25:42.956841Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128M, instances = 1, chunk size = 128M
2017-12-10T12:25:42.965639Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2017-12-10T12:25:42.969568Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: If the mysqld execution user is authorized, page cleaner thread priority can be changed. See the man page of setpriority().
2017-12-10T12:25:42.982838Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.001695Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
2017-12-10T12:25:43.002427Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2017-12-10T12:25:43.028474Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.029519Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 96 redo rollback segment(s) found. 96 redo rollback segment(s) are active.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.029785Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 32 non-redo rollback segment(s) are active.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.030165Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2017-12-10T12:25:43.080873Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 5.7.20 started; log sequence number 2565377
2017-12-10T12:25:43.085057Z 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.097783Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool
2017-12-10T12:25:43.111653Z 0 [Note] Found ca.pem, server-cert.pem and server-key.pem in data directory. Trying to enable SSL support using them.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.112695Z 0 [Warning] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.112387Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 171210 12:25:43
2017-12-10T12:25:43.122126Z 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.122654Z 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.122922Z 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.123172Z 0 [Warning] 'db' entry 'performance_schema mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.123424Z 0 [Warning] 'db' entry 'sys mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.123655Z 0 [Warning] 'proxies_priv' entry '@ root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.125278Z 0 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'user mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.125625Z 0 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'sys_config mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.130811Z 0 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
2017-12-10T12:25:43.131463Z 0 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.7.20'  socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'  port: 0  MySQL Community Server (GPL)
2017-12-10T12:25:43.131789Z 0 [Note] Executing 'SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES;' to get a list of tables using the deprecated partition engine. You may use the startup option '--disable-partition-engine-check' to skip this check.
2017-12-10T12:25:43.132034Z 0 [Note] Beginning of list of non-natively partitioned tables
2017-12-10T12:25:43.141674Z 0 [Note] End of list of non-natively partitioned tables
Warning: Unable to load '/usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab' as time zone. Skipping it.
Warning: Unable to load '/usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list' as time zone. Skipping it.
Warning: Unable to load '/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab' as time zone. Skipping it.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.325153Z 5 [Warning] 'user' entry 'root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.326169Z 5 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.326766Z 5 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.327430Z 5 [Warning] 'db' entry 'performance_schema mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.328439Z 5 [Warning] 'db' entry 'sys mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.329236Z 5 [Warning] 'proxies_priv' entry '@ root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.330139Z 5 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'user mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.330625Z 5 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'sys_config mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.355944Z 9 [Warning] 'user' entry 'root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.356363Z 9 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.356743Z 9 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.357080Z 9 [Warning] 'db' entry 'performance_schema mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.357407Z 9 [Warning] 'db' entry 'sys mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.358138Z 9 [Warning] 'proxies_priv' entry '@ root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.358579Z 9 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'user mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.358825Z 9 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'sys_config mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.

2017-12-10T12:25:45.360088Z 0 [Note] Giving 0 client threads a chance to die gracefully
2017-12-10T12:25:45.360365Z 0 [Note] Shutting down slave threads
2017-12-10T12:25:45.360562Z 0 [Note] Forcefully disconnecting 0 remaining clients
2017-12-10T12:25:45.360757Z 0 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
2017-12-10T12:25:45.360982Z 0 [Note] Binlog end
2017-12-10T12:25:45.361681Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'ngram'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.361897Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'BLACKHOLE'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.362098Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'partition'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.362285Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'ARCHIVE'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.362470Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_VIRTUAL'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.362653Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_DATAFILES'
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2017-12-10T12:25:45.363455Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_SYS_FIELDS'
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2017-12-10T12:25:45.365678Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_DELETED'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.365846Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_FT_DEFAULT_STOPWORD'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.366026Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_METRICS'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.366214Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_TEMP_TABLE_INFO'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.366413Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.366616Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.366799Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.366976Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX_RESET'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.367142Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.367305Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.367467Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMPMEM'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.367628Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP_RESET'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.367796Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_CMP'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.367978Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_LOCK_WAITS'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.368141Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_LOCKS'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.368307Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'INNODB_TRX'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.368469Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'InnoDB'
2017-12-10T12:25:45.368926Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
2017-12-10T12:25:45.369212Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
2017-12-10T12:25:45.469927Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) to /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool
2017-12-10T12:25:45.471353Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 171210 12:25:45
2017-12-10T12:25:47.118138Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 12169663
2017-12-10T12:25:47.125477Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Removed temporary tablespace data file: "ibtmp1"
2017-12-10T12:25:47.126721Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MRG_MYISAM'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.127496Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MyISAM'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.128253Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'CSV'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.128958Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'MEMORY'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.129665Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.130679Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'sha256_password'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.131807Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'mysql_native_password'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.132756Z 0 [Note] Shutting down plugin 'binlog'
2017-12-10T12:25:47.135910Z 0 [Note] mysqld: Shutdown complete


MySQL init process done. Ready for start up.

2017-12-10T12:25:47.379637Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2017-12-10T12:25:47.381062Z 0 [Note] mysqld (mysqld 5.7.20) starting as process 1 ...
2017-12-10T12:25:47.383987Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: PUNCH HOLE support available
2017-12-10T12:25:47.384373Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
2017-12-10T12:25:47.384612Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2017-12-10T12:25:47.384828Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier
2017-12-10T12:25:47.385024Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
2017-12-10T12:25:47.385229Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2017-12-10T12:25:47.385591Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2017-12-10T12:25:47.385887Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions
2017-12-10T12:25:47.387049Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128M, instances = 1, chunk size = 128M
2017-12-10T12:25:47.393069Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2017-12-10T12:25:47.395207Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: If the mysqld execution user is authorized, page cleaner thread priority can be changed. See the man page of setpriority().
2017-12-10T12:25:47.406539Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.417533Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
2017-12-10T12:25:47.418058Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2017-12-10T12:25:47.433202Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.434200Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 96 redo rollback segment(s) found. 96 redo rollback segment(s) are active.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.434456Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 32 non-redo rollback segment(s) are active.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.434855Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2017-12-10T12:25:47.485468Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 5.7.20 started; log sequence number 12169663
2017-12-10T12:25:47.487084Z 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.500417Z 0 [Note] Found ca.pem, server-cert.pem and server-key.pem in data directory. Trying to enable SSL support using them.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.502089Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool
2017-12-10T12:25:47.511981Z 0 [Warning] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.516700Z 0 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '*'; port: 3306
2017-12-10T12:25:47.517640Z 0 [Note] IPv6 is available.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.518010Z 0 [Note]   - '::' resolves to '::';
2017-12-10T12:25:47.518467Z 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.523590Z 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.524079Z 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.524350Z 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.524623Z 0 [Warning] 'db' entry 'performance_schema mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.524854Z 0 [Warning] 'db' entry 'sys mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.525118Z 0 [Warning] 'proxies_priv' entry '@ root@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.527817Z 0 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'user mysql.session@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.528270Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 171210 12:25:47
2017-12-10T12:25:47.528542Z 0 [Warning] 'tables_priv' entry 'sys_config mysql.sys@localhost' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.532739Z 0 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
2017-12-10T12:25:47.533402Z 0 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.7.20'  socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)
2017-12-10T12:25:47.533772Z 0 [Note] Executing 'SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES;' to get a list of tables using the deprecated partition engine. You may use the startup option '--disable-partition-engine-check' to skip this check.
2017-12-10T12:25:47.534079Z 0 [Note] Beginning of list of non-natively partitioned tables
2017-12-10T12:25:47.541968Z 0 [Note] End of list of non-natively partitioned tables

and everything works like expected:

alpine:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
a6d0d908f034        mysql               "docker-entrypoint..."   3 minutes ago       Up 3 minutes        0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp   mysqldb
alpine:~# docker exec -it a6d0d908f034  mysql -u root -psupersecret
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.7.20 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> exit
Bye

If i create the following:

mysql> create database mydb;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> use mydb
Database changed
mysql> create table mytable ( id int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)

and inside the volume:

alpine:/# docker volume inspect mysql_data
[
    {
        "CreatedAt": "2017-12-10T12:30:53Z",
        "Driver": "local",
        "Labels": {},
        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/mysql_data/_data",
        "Name": "mysql_data",
        "Options": {},
        "Scope": "local"
    }
]
alpine:/# ls -l /var/lib/docker/volumes/mysql_data/_data/mydb/
total 112
-rw-r-----    1 999      ping            65 Dec 10 12:30 db.opt
-rw-r-----    1 999      ping          8556 Dec 10 12:31 mytable.frm
-rw-r-----    1 999      ping         98304 Dec 10 12:31 mytable.ibd

But after stopping the mysql database, i got the following on the next start:

alpine:~# docker run --name mysqldb  -v mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql -e MYSQL_USER=mysql -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=mysql -e MYSQL_DATABASE=sample -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=supersecret -it -p 3306:3306 mysq
l
docker: Error response from daemon: Conflict. The container name "/mysqldb" is already in use by container "a6d0d908f03466181682666affb390650179c322f2848d32f2c72fab828f980c". You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name.
See 'docker run --help'.

 OK. I have to change the "--name" (--> mysqldb2):

alpine:/# docker exec -it mysqldb2  mysql -u root -psupersecret
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server version: 5.7.20 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> show databases
    -> ;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mydb               |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| sample             |
| sys                |
+--------------------+
6 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Yippie! The data is still there!







Shortcomings of this approach:

• Each time you start the mysql database on a new host, you have to run "docker volume create..."
  If you create a container with this volume (s. here oder there) you can skip this "docker volume create".
• Both approaches will not work on docker swarm. The data is local to a node and not shared. One idea: Use a NFS mountpoint to redistribute the volume to all nodes.

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)

Docker-Swarm: Running with more than one manager-node / How to add a secondary manager or multiple managers

Adding additional masters to a docker swarm is very easy. I just followed the documentation:

On the manager i ran the following command:

alpine:~# docker swarm join-token manager
To add a manager to this swarm, run the following command:

    docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-3b7f69d3wgty0u68oab8724z07fkyvgc0w8j37ng1l7jsmbghl-5nrni6ksqnkljvqpp59m5gfh1 192.168.178.46:2377

And on the node:

node03:~# docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-3b7f69d3wgty0u68oab8724z07fkyvgc0w8j37ng1
l7jsmbghl-5nrni6ksqnkljvqpp59m5gfh1 192.168.178.46:2377

This node joined a swarm as a manager.

The new state of the cluster shows:

alpine:~# docker  info | grep -A 23 Swarm
Swarm: active
 NodeID: wy1z8jxmr1cyupdqgkm6lxhe2
 Is Manager: true
 ClusterID: wkbjyxbcuohgdqc3amhl9umlq
 Managers: 2
 Nodes: 4
 Orchestration:
  Task History Retention Limit: 5
 Raft:
  Snapshot Interval: 10000
  Number of Old Snapshots to Retain: 0
  Heartbeat Tick: 1
  Election Tick: 3
 Dispatcher:
  Heartbeat Period: 5 seconds
 CA Configuration:
  Expiry Duration: 3 months
  Force Rotate: 0
 Autolock Managers: false
 Root Rotation In Progress: false
 Node Address: 192.168.178.46
 Manager Addresses:
  192.168.178.46:2377
  192.168.178.50:2377

If you want to use a new token just run:

alpine:~# docker  swarm join-token --rotate  manager
Successfully rotated manager join token.

To add a manager to this swarm, run the following command:

    docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-3b7f69d3wgty0u68oab8724z07fkyvgc0w8j37ng1l7jsmbghl-cgy143mwghbfoozt0b8li2587 192.168.178.46:2377

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)

Docker-CE: Setting up a tomcat in less than a minute and running your JSP...

Last time i wrote about processes and files of a docker container hosting the docker example myapp.py.
Next step was to run a tomcat with a small application inside.

This can be done with theses commands:

1. Get tomcat from the docker library:
   # docker pull tomcat
   Using default tag: latest
   latest: Pulling from library/tomcat
   3e17c6eae66c: Pull complete
   fdfb54153de7: Pull complete
   a4ca6e73242a: Pull complete
   5161d2a139e2: Pull complete
   7659b327f9ec: Pull complete
   ce47e69f11ad: Pull complete
   7d946df3a3d8: Pull complete
   a57cba73d797: Pull complete
   7e6f56cdb523: Pull complete
   06e4787b3ca5: Pull complete
   c760cb7e43cb: Pull complete
   ad6d0815df5c: Pull complete
   d7e1da09fc22: Pull complete
   Digest: sha256:a069d49c414bad0d98f5a4d7f9b7fdd318ccc451dc535084480c8aead68272d2
   Status: Downloaded newer image for tomcat:latest
2. Test the tomcat:
   # docker run -p 4000:8080 tomcat
   20-Nov-2017 20:38:11.754 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version:        Apache Tomcat/8.5.23
   20-Nov-2017 20:38:11.762 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server built:          Sep 28 2017 10:30:11 UTC
   20-Nov-2017 20:38:11.762 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server number:         8.5.23.0
   ....
   ....
   org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.destroy Destroying ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
   20-Nov-2017 20:41:59.928 INFO [Thread-5] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.destroy Destroying ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"] 

This was easy.
Now create your JSP and run it:

1. create a directory
   mkdir tomcatstatus
2. create a jsp inside this direcotry
   vi tomcatstatus/index.jsp
   and insert the following content:
   <%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*" %>
   
   
   Host name : <%=java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() %>
   
   Server Version: <%= application.getServerInfo() %>
   
   Servlet Version: <%= application.getMajorVersion() %>.<%= application.getMinorVersion(
   ) %>
   JSP Version: <%= JspFactory.getDefaultFactory().getEngineInfo().getSpecificationVersio
   n() %>
3. Run docker
   docker run -v /home/schroff/tomcatstatus:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/status -p 4000:8080 tomcat
4. Connect to port 4000:

Wow - i am really stunned how fast the tomcat was setup and the jsp was launched. No installation of java (ok, this is only apt install) and no setup procedure for Apache tomcat (ok, this is just a tar -zxvf). But if i want to run more than one installation - docker is faster than repeating the installation or copying files.  Really cool!


(One thing i forgot: Installation of docker onto your server)

Related posts:

• Docker on Ubuntu 
• Running through a tutorial / investigating the processes
• Creating a small linux for my docker cluster (Alpine Linux) 
• How to build a docker swarm 
• Creating a minimal webserver container and deploying it to docker swarm
• Setting up a tomcat with docker  
• Running a swarm with multiple managers 
• Mysql inside a docker container - persistency with docker volumes 
• How to change the configuration of a standard docker container(e.g. changing tomcats memory settings)