#Containerization

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Containerization is a lightweight alternative to full machine virtualization that involves encapsulating an application in a container with its own operating environment. 

Question Michael Derr · Dec 4, 2025

We are a group of interface analysts in a healthcare setting, running IRIS for Health 2024, having upgraded over time from an old ENSEMBLE environment.  We have been working on a wish list of development goals, but are having trouble finding the correct, best practice method/path for getting to what we envision.

Current state:  We run IRIS for Health on a Redhat 8 virtual machine.  We run Interoperability productions (IE.cls) out of 6 namespaces.  We have a dev/test box and a production box.

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Question Oliver Wilms · Apr 21, 2025

I am brand new to using AI. I downloaded some medical visit progress notes from my Patient Portal. I extracted text from PDF files. I found a YouTube video that showed how to extract metadata using an OpenAI query / prompt such as this one:

ollama-ai-iris/data/prompts/medical_progress_notes_prompt.txt at main · oliverwilms/ollama-ai-iris
 

I combined @Rodolfo Pscheidt Jr https://github.com/RodolfoPscheidtJr/ollama-ai-iris with some files from @Guillaume Rongier https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/iris-rag-demo.

I attempted to run

python3 query_data.

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Question Oliver Wilms · Apr 27, 2025

I combined @Rodolfo Pscheidt https://github.com/RodolfoPscheidtJr/ollama-ai-iris with some files from @Guillaume Rongier https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/iris-rag-demo.

My own project is https://github.com/oliverwilms/ollama-ai-iris

I can run load_data.py and it connects to IRIS (same container).

When I try to run query_data.py https://github.com/oliverwilms/ollama-ai-iris/blob/main/query_data.py , it cannot connect to ollama:

ConnectionError: Failed to connect to Ollama. Please check that Ollama is downloaded, running and accessible.

I wonder if I need to add in query_data.

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Question John McBride · Feb 7, 2025

I have a flask application, its working locally. I also have a iris for health 2024.3 docker container front-ended with the iris nginx container.

I can configure the WSGI application with iris for health, give it a "url" (/flask or /csp/flask) but I cannot access the flask application. It looks like the url is not found within the nginx configuration. Is there any documentation or suggestion for configuration/enabling a flask app with a IRIS container front ended with the nginx container (provided by intersystems container registry) 

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Question John McBride · Feb 5, 2025

Hello,

When setting up a new web app in iris (iris is in a container) iris complains that a WSGI framework is not installed. I have installed python into the container as well as both flask and django via the python virtual environment (see second screenshot) and the python language server is running

Is this the wrong way to install flask? How do I get the container version to recoginize that flask is installed?

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Question Alastair Maxwell · Dec 17, 2024

Hi,

I recently had a company-enforced OS upgrade, and ever since going from mac OS 14.x to 15.x, I am currently having issues with SSL in IRIS.

An ARM (M3 pro) machine running OS 15.2, with the latest Docker Desktop (at the time of writing, 4.37.0). The Docker container runs IRIS for UNIX (Ubuntu Server LTS for x86-64 Containers) 2022.1.2 (Build 574_0_22161U). This container has not changed.

When attempting to run some local API tests of our software, I am hosting a Wiremock (https://github.com/wiremock/wiremock) server locally on the mac, in order to mock HTTP requests/responses.

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Question Victor Castanon · Sep 9, 2024

Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone has run into an issue with <FILEFULL> when building an image from the ISC image? Specifically what's happening in our build is we are pre-loading our codebase into the image to make deployments faster and setting up source control, etc. When loading our libraries however we get hit with a <FILEFULL>. The resource limits on docker are pretty beefy and when observing resources on both the machine and container level we don't hit any issues. Oddly, this only happens when using the ARM64 version. When using the AMD64 version of 2024.

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Question Addy Naik · Jun 12, 2024

Im trying to run a local instance of the UCR/Patient Index in a container but its giving me an error. 

Here is my docker compose file:

version: "3.2"

services:
  iris:
    image: container.intersystems.com/intersystems/healthshare_unifiedcarerecord_insight_patientindex:2023.2
    platform: linux/amd64
    command: --key /dur/key/iris.key
    ports:
      # 1972 is the superserver default port
      - "9091:1972"
      # 52773 is the webserver/management portal port
      - "9092:52773"
      # 52773 is the JDBC Gateway port
      - "9093:52773"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/dur

    environment:
      - ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY=/dur/iris_conf.d
      - ISC_CPF_MERGE_FILE=/dur/merge/merge.cpf
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Question Scott Roth · Jan 17, 2024

I downloaded containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/healthshare_providerdirectory:2023.2 to evaluate, however when I try to run the container it keeps

exiting. 

>docker run --name providerdirectory --user=irisowner --env=ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY=/intersystems/irisdata --runtime=runc -d containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/healthshare_providerdirectory:2023.2

I keep getting the following, and I am not sure why...

01

Can someone point me to the correct docker run command to get this to run?

Thanks

Scott

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Question Kari Vatjus-Anttila · Dec 21, 2023

Hello,

I've been running IRIS in a container for a while with the durable %SYS feature. Previously, I was running IRIS 2022.x version and decided to upgrade to 2023.1. During image build, I create some namespaces and install a FHIR repo into one of them using the following script:

Do ##class(HS.FHIRServer.Installer).InstallNamespace()
Do ##class(HS.FHIRServer.Installer).InstallInstance(appKey, strategyClass, metadataPackages)

However, when I updated the container (stopped the existing one, started the new one), I noticed a peculiar error.

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Question Zhou Tao · Nov 3, 2023

We are using IRIS health 2023.1 to build an application that runs on kubernetes cluster as container images. In the container image, we have our own PRODUCTION "APP" created with its routines database and global database located at:

/usr/irissys/mgr/APPCODE/IRIS.DAT

/usr/irissys/mgr/APPDATA/IRIS.DAT

To persist the data, we use the “Durable %SYS for Persistent” featureand set the ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY to an external durable folder (/durable/iconfig).

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Question Luis Angel Pérez Ramos · Jun 19, 2023

Hi community members!

I'm trying to deploy a container based on IRIS Community for Health ML image available from this url but when I start the container the memory consumption skyrockets to 99% making impossible to work with the instance (it never goes below the 95% of the memory). When I do the same with the IRIS Community for Health image it never goes over 80% of memory.

Is this a known problem? Should I try another version? Maybe have I just to sit down in a corner and cry like a baby?

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Question Timothy Leavitt · May 1, 2023

Has anyone seen this before? I'm new/bad at Docker and not even sure how to debug.

$ sudo docker logs <container>
[INFO] Starting InterSystems IRIS instance IRIS...
[INFO] Unable to read the startup.last file to identify the location of the write
image journal file (IRIS.WIJ) that was last in use by this instance. Please
fix the permissions of the startup.last file.

** Startup aborted **

Starting IRIS
Recovery failure. Startup aborted.
[ERROR] Command "iris start IRIS quietly" exited with status 256

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Question Scott Roth · Feb 14, 2023

Does anyone have experience with installing the Arbiter Container using Podman instead of Docker in a Red Hat environment? I was able to pull down the docker image, but unsure what are the next steps as I am confused on how to start the container using Podman and ensure the parameters are set appropriately? Does anyone have the steps that I should take? Should I go through the WRC? Does the WRC have experience using Podman?

Or should I just install the ISC Agent instead of using the Container?

Please and thanks,

Scott Roth

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Question Oliver Wilms · Nov 23, 2022

My team works on implementing an Interoperability solution utilizing InterSystems Kubernetes Operator on Red Hat OpenShift container platform. 

We are trying to determine how many messages we can process in any given time. We have a Feeder app running in 10 containers sending 50k messages each to a load balancer all beginning at the same time.

Messages are received via HTTPS protocol by webgateway containers. 

Interoperability production runs in compute pods with persistent data, journals, and WIJ volumes.

We implemented Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to scale compute pods when CPU utilization is high.

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