Docker Compose to CoreOS - docker

Question

I'm currently learning Docker, and have made a nice and simple Docker Compose setup. 3 containers, all with their own Dockerfile setup. How could I go about converting this to work on CoreOS so I can setup up a cluster later on?
web:
build: ./app
ports:
- "3030:3000"
links:
- "redis"
newrelic:
build: ./newrelic
links:
- "redis"
redis:
build: ./redis
ports:
- "6379:6379"
volumes:
- /data/redis:/data

Answer 1

taken from https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
the only thing is that /usr is read only, but /opt/bin is writable and in the path, so:
sd-xx~ # mkdir /opt/
sd-xx~ # mkdir /opt/bin
sd-xx~ # curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.3.3/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /opt/bin/docker-compose
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 403 0 403 0 0 1076 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1080
100 7990k 100 7990k 0 0 2137k 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 3176k
sd-xx~ # chmod +x /opt/bin/docker-compose
sd-xx~ # docker-compose
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker.
Usage:
docker-compose [options] [COMMAND] [ARGS...]
docker-compose -h|--help
Options:
-f, --file FILE Specify an alternate compose file (default: docker-compose.yml)
-p, --project-name NAME Specify an alternate project name (default: directory name)
--verbose Show more output
-v, --version Print version and exit
Commands:
build Build or rebuild services
help Get help on a command
kill Kill containers
logs View output from containers
port Print the public port for a port binding
ps List containers
pull Pulls service images
restart Restart services
rm Remove stopped containers
run Run a one-off command
scale Set number of containers for a service
start Start services
stop Stop services
up Create and start containers
migrate-to-labels Recreate containers to add labels

Answer 2

I've created simple script for installing latest Docker Compose on CoreOS:
https://gist.github.com/marszall87/ee7c5ea6f6da9f8968dd
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /opt/bin
curl -L `curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("Linux") and contains("x86_64"))'` > /opt/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /opt/bin/docker-compose
Just run it with sudo

Answer 3

The proper way to install or run really anything on CoreOS is either
Install it as a unit
Run in a separate docker container
For docker-compose you probably want to install it as a unit, just like you have docker as a unit. See Digital Ocean's excellent guides on CoreOS and the systemd units chapter to learn more.
Locate your cloud config based on your cloud provider or custom installation, see https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/cloud-config-locations.html for locations.
Install docker-compose by adding it as a unit
#cloud-config
coreos:
units:
- name: install-docker-compose.service
command: start
content: |
[Unit]
Description=Install docker-compose
ConditionPathExists=!/opt/bin/docker-compose
[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mkdir -p /opt/bin/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/curl -o /opt/bin/docker-compose -sL "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.9.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/chmod +x /opt/bin/docker-compose
Note that I couldn't get the uname -s and uname -m expansions to work in the curl statement so I just replaced them with their expanded values.
Validate your config file with
coreos-cloudinit -validate --from-file path-to-cloud-config
It should output something like
myhost core # coreos-cloudinit -validate --from-file path-to-cloudconfig
2016/12/12 12:45:03 Checking availability of "local-file"
2016/12/12 12:45:03 Fetching user-data from datasource of type "local-file"
myhost core #
Note that coreos-cloudinit doesn't validate the contents-blocks in your cloud-config. Restart CoreOS when you're finished, and you're ready to go.
Update: As #Wolfgang comments, you can run coreos-cloudinit --from-file path-to-cloud-config instead of restarting CoreOS.

Answer 4

I would also suggest docker-compose in a docker container like the one from dduportal.
For the sake of usability I extended my cloud-config.yml as follows:
write_files:
- path: "/etc/profile.d/aliases.sh"
content: |
alias docker-compose="docker run -v \"\$(pwd)\":\"\$(pwd)\" -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -e COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=\$(basename \"\$(pwd)\") -ti --rm --workdir=\"\$(pwd)\" dduportal/docker-compose:latest"
After updating the cloud-config via sudo coreos-cloudinit -from-url http-path-to/cloud-config.yml and a system reboot, you are able to use the docker-compose command like you are used to on every other machine.

Answer 5

CentruyLabs created a rubygem called fig2coreos
It translates fig.yml to .service files
fig is deprecated since docker-compose was created but the syntax seems to be the same so that it could probably work.

Answer 6

Simple 3 Steps:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/bin
Grab the command in the official website https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/ and change the output path from /usr/local/bin/docker-compose to /opt/bin :
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.9.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /opt/bin/docker-compose
Make executable:
sudo chmod +x /opt/bin/docker-compose
Now you have docker-compose :)

Answer 7

here it is,
the best way I found:
core#london-1 ~ $ docker pull dduportal/docker-compose
core#london-1 ~ $ cd /dir/where-it-is-your/docker-compose.yml
core#london-1 ~ $ docker run -v "$(pwd)":/app \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-e COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=$(basename "$(pwd)")\
-ti --rm \
dduportal/docker-compose:latest up
done!

Answer 8

well, coreOS supports docker but it is bare bone linux with clustering suppport so you need to include a base image for all your containers ( use FROM and in Dockerfile you might also need to do RUN yum -y install bzip2 gnupg etc., ) that has the bins and libs that are needed by you app and redis ( better take some ubuntu base image )
Here you can put all of them in one container/docker or seperate if you do it seperate then you need to link the containers and optionally volume mount - docker has some good notes about it (https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/)
Atlast, you need to write cloud config which specifies the systemd units . In your case you will have 3 units that will be started by systemd ( systemd replaces the good old init system in coreOS) and feed it to coreos-cloudinit ( tip: coreos-cloudinit -from-file=./cloud-config -validate=false ), You also need to provide this cloud-config on the linux bootcmd for persistency.

Answer 9

Currently, the easiest way to use docker-compose agains a CoreOS Vagrant VM. You just need to make sure to forward Docker port.
If you are not particularly attached to using docker-compose, you can try CoreOS running Kubernetes. There are multiple options and I have implemented one of those for Azure.

Answer 10

For using docker-compose with Fedora CoreOS you may run into issues with python, however running docker-compose from a container works perfectly.
There is a handy bash wrapper script and it is documented in the official documentation here: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/#alternative-install-options under the "Install as a container" section.