#Containerization

Why SSH ?

If you do not have direct access to the server that runs your IRIS Docker container
you still may require access to the container outside "iris session" or "WebTerminal".
With an SSH terminal (PuTTY, KiTTY,.. ) you get access inside Docker, and then, depending
on your needs you run "iris session iris" or display/manipulate files directly.

Note: 

greetings Community!

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Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Extending Interoperability with PEX & Containers

Those of you who run and support older-style legacy systems on IRIS may be interested in learning about and trying out a new framework I've built on top of my colleague Chris Munt's mg_web technology (details at https://github.com/chrisemunt/mg_web).

There are quite a few older-style and legacy applications out there whose useful life can be extended by making their functionality available as REST APIs.  To make this something that can be done quickly and easily, using modern, industrial-strength web servers, I've created what I'm calling mgweb-server:

https://github.com/robtweed/mgweb-serve

Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video recorded by @Evgeny Shvarov on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Developing InterSystems IRIS solution using GitHub Codespaces

Keywords:  IRIS, IntegratedML, Flask, FastAPI, Tensorflow Serving, HAProxy, Docker, Covid-19

Purpose:

We touched on some quick demos of  deep learning and machine learning over the past few months, including a simple Covid-19 X-Ray image classifier and a Covid-19  lab result classifier for possible ICU admissions.  We also touched on an IntegratedML demo implementation of the ICU classifier.  While the "data science" hiking still goes on, it might also be a good time to try some AI service deployment from the "data engineering" perspective - could we wrap up everything we touched on so far i

Does anyone have a Dockerfile for .Net/Java Gateways to share?

I'm trying out PEX and I think being able to run it as a docker container would be great.

To clarify I'm interested in container without IRIS, gateway only.

This article is a continuation of Deploying InterSystems IRIS solution on GKE Using GitHub Actions, in which, with the help of GitHub Actions pipeline, our zpm-registry was deployed in a Google Kubernetes cluster created by Terraform. In order not to repeat, we’ll take as a starting point that:

InterSystems supports use of the InterSystems IRIS Docker images it provides on Linux only. Rather than executing containers as native processes, as on Linux platforms, Docker for Windows creates a Linux VM running under Hyper-V, the Windows virtualizer, to host containers. These additional layers add complexity that prevents InterSystems from supporting Docker for Windows at this time.

We understand, however, that for testing and other specific purposes, you may want to run InterSystems IRIS-based containers from InterSystems under Docker for Windows. This article describes the differences b

Imagine you want to see what InterSystems can give you in terms of data analytics. You studied the theory and now you want some practice. Fortunately, InterSystems provides a project that contains some good examples: Samples BI. Start with the README file, skipping anything associated with Docker, and go straight to the step-by-step installation. Launch a virtual instance, install IRIS there, follow the instructions for installing Samples BI, and then impress the boss with beautiful charts and tables. So far so good. 

Inevitably, though, you’ll need to make changes.

AWS has officially released their second-generation Arm-based Graviton2 processors and associated Amazon EC2 M6g instance type, which boasts up to 40% better price performance over current generation Intel Xeon based M5 instances. 

A few months ago, InterSystems participated in the M6g preview program, and we ran a few benchmarks with InterSystems IRIS that showed compelling results. This led us to support ARM64 architectures for the first time.

Now you can try InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health on Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g instances for yourselves through the AWS Marketplace!

Hey, 

I am pretty new to Docker and everything around that. I installed the container image from DockerHub and followed the instructions (https://hub.docker.com/_/intersystems-iris-data-platform/plans/222f869e-567c-4928-b572-eb6a29706fbd?tab=instructions). Everything is working fine except for the part where I want to change the default password.

I followed the instructions from this article (https://community.intersystems.com/post/using-intersystems-iris-containers-docker-windows) and the result was:

docker run --name iris3 --detach --publish 9091:51773 --publish 9092:52773 --volume C:\

In an earlier article (hope, you’ve read it), we took a look at the CircleCI deployment system, which integrates perfectly with GitHub. Why then would we want to look any further? Well, GitHub has its own CI/CD platform called GitHub Actions, which is worth exploring. With GitHub Actions, you don’t need to rely on some external, albeit cool, service.

In this article we’re going to try using GitHub Actions to deploy the server part of  InterSystems Package Manager, ZPM-registry, on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Hello,

How can I use ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY once IRIS runs inside a container? Some background...

We plan to deploy multiple containers running the same Health Connect IRIS Interoperability production in containers. So far we use docker run to start a container with ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY individual per container inside a efs that gets mapped using -v. I can imagine automating this task - we have not yet looked at cloud manager - and assigning individual ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY to each container. We experience errors when multiple file service in different containers point at the same folder in efs outsi

Last time we deployed a simple IRIS application to the Google Cloud. Now we’re going to deploy the same project to Amazon Web Services using its Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

We assume you’ve already forked the IRIS project to your own private repository. It’s called <username>/my-objectscript-rest-docker-template in this article. <root_repo_dir> is its root directory.

Before getting started, install the AWS command-line interface and, for Kubernetes cluster creation, eksctl, a simple CLI utility. For AWS you can try to use aws2, but you’ll need to set aws2 usage in kube config file as described here.

Hello!

I'm interested to hear if folks have experience using Docker containers with Caché instances using ECP. Wondering if there are any special considerations when setting up a distributed application with multiple containers communicating with ECP. Any input is appreciated!

Hi Community!

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Online Meetup supported by InterSystems Israel Team on  May 26 at 3:00 PM IDT (Israel Daylight Time) / 8:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

Topic: Introduction to Using Containers

What awaits you?

Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Automated InterSystems IRIS Cloud Scaling

Most of us are more or less familiar with Docker. Those who use it like it for the way it lets us easily deploy almost any application, play with it, break something and then restore the application with a simple restart of the Docker container.
InterSystems also likes Docker.The InterSystems OpenExchange projectcontains a number of examples that run InterSystems IRIS images in Docker containers that are easy to download and run. You’ll also find other useful components, such as the Visual Studio IRIS plugin.
It’s easy enough to run IRIS in Docker with additional code for specific use cases, b

Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Leveraging Containers for DevOps

Allow limited durability for demo and development IRIS-Docker-micro-Durability During development of a container based demo I found the need to access a fresh docker
an instance of IRIS image (e.g intersystems/iris-community:2020.2.0.199.0) over and over.
To bypass loading my code repeatedly, I developed this workaround.

Docker support

The principle of a persistent IRIS database outside the container is unchanged.
But now the whole setup is moved into Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml

Prerequisites

Make sure you have git and Docker desktop installed.

Installation

Clone/git pull the repo int

I have Mac OSX and Docker Desktop 2.2 (Engine 19.03).

I have a REST service running on my localhost (Mac) and I was trying to consume it from IRIS running in a Docker container.

If you try something like that don't use localhost as HTTP Server setting (using a Business Operation for example).

You have to use host.docker.internal.

Hi Developers,

Enjoy watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Diving into InterSystems Cloud Technology

Hi Community!

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ A Skeptics Guide to Containers

For standalone installations I always recommended to use custom namespaces and not the USER namespace.

However, what about Docker?

In many Dockerfiles I see the creation of additional namespace, but why, if only one namespace is required?

What do you think?

I'm building a container from store/intersystems/iris-community:2019.4.0.383.0 .

I need to add my folder to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH  so that my custom shared library would load at runtime.

How can I do that?

Here's what I tried:

ARG IMAGE=store/intersystems/iris-community:2019.4.0.383.0
FROM ${IMAGE}

USER root

ENV MYDIR /usr/mydir

ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH $MYDIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

RUN mkdir "$MYDIR"; \
	chown -hR $ISC_PACKAGE_IRISUSER:$ISC_PACKAGE_IRISGROUP $MYDIR; \
	chmod -R 777 $MYDIR; \
	echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\"$MYDIR\"" >> /etc/environment; \
	echo "$MYDIR" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/

Hi Developers,

Please welcome the new video from Global Summit 2019 on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ InterSystems IRIS Cloud Roadmap

Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Durable Data Storage with Containers

Hello all!

As we ObjectScript developers have been experiencing, preparing an environment to run CI related tasks can be quite the chore. This is why I have been thinking about how we could improve this workflow and the result of that effort is IRIS-CI.

See how it works here.

Quickstart

1.Download the image from the Docker Hub registry:

docker pull rfns/iris-ci:0.5.3

2. Run the container (with the default settings):

docker run --rm --name ci -t -v /path/to/your/app:/opt/ci/app rfns/iris-ci:0.5.3

Notice that volume mounting to /path/to/your/app? This is where the app should be. And that's it:

Hi Everyone,

I've been working on deploying an IRIS for Health environment in EKS. There is a video session in the InterSystems learning portal about this feature but I have not succeeded in finding the proper documentation and resources to use this in my Kubernetes cluster.

Has this been deprecated/discontinued? Any idea where can I find the resources? Should I stick to StatefulSets instead of using the IrisCluster resource type provided by this operator?