Dolater.io

Dolater.io lets you execute background jobs on a remote docker server.

How to run it

You'll need docker-compose to run the services and its dependencies easily. To run all services at once use, run:

docker-compose up -d --no-recreate

This will run the API server as well as one dolater.io worker. You can always scale the amount of workers by using docker-compose scale worker=N command.

Now it's all ready to use.

Troubleshooting

• If you cannot see some of the newer features than the image maybe out of date.
  • Stop the runnign instances: docker-compose down
  • Run docker rmi shoppinpal/dolaterio to remove the outdated image
  • When docker-compose up -d --no-recreate runs, it will be downloaded again.
• Very rarely you may see an error:
  • When the migrate container may have faced a problem during its execution.

    {"error":true,"code":500,"message":"gorethink: Database `dolaterio` does not exist. in:\nr.DB(\"dolaterio\").Table(\"workers\")"}
    
    # or
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    KeyError: 'id'
    

  * use `docker-compose ps` to check the status
    * you have a problem when the exit status is non-zero:
  
      ```
              Name                       Command               State  
      ----------------------------------------------------------------
      dolaterio_migrate_1     /migrate                         Exit 2
      ```
      * In such a case retry with `docker-compose down && docker-compose up -d --force-recreate`
      * and recheck the status with `docker-compose ps`
    * you are good to go if you see:
  
      ```
              Name                       Command               State
      ----------------------------------------------------------------
      dolaterio_migrate_1     /migrate                         Exit 0
      ```
  
  

How to write Worker

You can find documentation here for writing your own worker.

Simple Example

Since dolater.io is running in docker, you'll need to know your docker host IP address to access it.

• If you use boot2docker, run boot2docker ip to find and substitute the value for DOCKERHOST

  • If that option is too outdated then another option for 'nix:

    export DOCKERHOST=`docker-machine ip default`
    

• If you use Docker for Mac and Windows beta then you can substitute DOCKERHOST with localhost.

Create a worker using our parrot docker image:

curl http://DOCKERHOST:7000/v1/workers -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"docker_image": "dolaterio/parrot"}'

You'll get a JSON response back with the information of the worker you just created. Use its id to create jobs on it:

curl http://DOCKERHOST:7000/v1/jobs -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"worker_id": WORKER_ID, "stdin": "Hello world!"}'

It will return a new JSON containing, between others, the id of the job. You can request dolater.io for the current state of the job:

curl http://DOCKERHOST:7000/v1/jobs/JOB_ID

Passing environment variables with worker :

curl http://DOCKERHOST:7000/v1/workers -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"docker_image": "dolaterio/parrot", "env": {"NODE_ENV": "local"}}'

Passing environment variables with the job :

curl http://127.0.0.1:7000/v1/jobs -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"worker_id": "6e1935fc-328b-40d7-9957-2f10654360f1", "stdin": "Hello World!", "env": {"HI": "BYE"}}'