Skynet.im in a Docker Container
This project will allow you to start hacking Skynet.im in Docker. You will need to have Docker installed and working.
First use git clone to make a copy of this project.
You need a Docker base image with Node.js installed.
One of the following commands should provide that:
sudo docker pull dockerfile/nodejs
sudo docker build -t=dockerfile/nodejs github.com/dockerfile/nodejs
With that in place you can build a Skynet.im image:
sudo docker build -t=skynet:preview .
That command builds a new image based on the dockerfile/nodejs image.
The new image will clone the official Skynet.im project from Github,
then run npm install.
See the sample configuration:
sudo docker run -i skynet:preview cat /skynet/config.js.sample
See the current configuration:
sudo docker run -i skynet:preview cat /skynet/config.js
You need a mongodb account, with a user and password. You need to bind the container port to a host machine port.
export MONGODB=mongodb://<username>:<password>@<your-mongo-host><port>/<database>
sudo docker run -i -p 5000:5000 -e MONGODB=$MONGODB skynet:preview node skynet:preview
You will see some error messages about Redis, that isn't configured yet. You can add it to the config.js file and then rebuild your skynet:preview image. Once it is running you can run (in a different terminal window):
curl http://localhost:5000/status
which should return something like this:
{"skynet":"online","timestamp":1393089501675,"eventCode":200,"_id":"5308dbdd0c8b720100000004"}
- Connect to Redis
- Provision datastores: Use dockerfile/mongodb and dockerfile/redis (get everything running within docker)
- Link containers: Use docker links between containers. Will most likely mean moving configuration into environment variables.
Eventually a script that will provision and link the whole system for you. Then you can build applications that use the Skynet.im stack.
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Docker containerization by Randall Bohn Twitter.
MIT license: see LICENSE file for details. Skynet.im uses a similar license.