Installing with docker-compose

Docker Compose is a tool for easily testing and running multi-container applications. Microcks offers a simple way to set up the minimal required containers to have a functional environment on your local computer.

Usage

To get started, make sure you have Docker installed on your system.

In your terminal issue the following commands:

1. Clone this repository.

   git clone https://github.com/microcks/microcks.git
   

2. Change to the install folder

   cd microcks/install/docker-compose
   

3. Spin up the containers

   docker compose up -d
   

This will start the required containers and setup a simple environment for you to use.

Open a new browser tab and point to the http://localhost:8080 endpoint. This will redirect you to the Keycloak Single Sign On page for login. Use the following default credentials to login into the application:

• Username: admin
• Password: microcks123

You will be redirected to the main dashboard page. You can now start using Microcks!

A “keycloakless” version of docker compose is available thanks to:

docker compose -f docker-compose-devmode.yml up -d

Enabling Asynchronous API features

Support for Asynchronous API features of Microcks are not enabled by default into the docker-compose.yml file. If you feel your local machine has enough resources to afford it, you can enable them using a slightly different command line.

In your terminal use the following command instead:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-async-addon.yml up -d

Docker compose is now launching additional containers, namely zookeeper, kafka and the microcks-async-minion. The above command should produce the following output:

Creating network "docker-compose_default" with the default driver
Creating microcks-zookeeper       ... done
Creating microcks-db              ... done
Creating microcks-sso             ... done
Creating microcks-postman-runtime ... done
Creating microcks                 ... done
Creating microcks-kafka           ... done
Creating microcks-async-minion    ... done

You may want to check our blog post for a detailed walkthrough on starting Async features on docker-compose.

If you’re feeling lucky regarding your machine, you can even add the Kafdrop utility to visualize and troubleshoot Kafka messages with this command:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-async-addon.yml -f kafdrop-addon.yml up -d