ncodefresh / docker-config

ironSource Docker micro-services

The container runs a Node.js application behind a Nginx reverse proxy. Supervisor process control system runs our application within the container. Every docker container receives an entry point, a process to run when the container starts. The entry point to our container is the supervisor. Nginx and Node.js applications are started via the supervisor. Supervisor also acts as a watchdog - in case the application crashes.

We use the c3.large instance type for most of our applications. Due to the fact that this instance type has 2 CPU cores. We run 2 Node.js processes listening on ports 8000 and 8001. Nginx listens on port 80 and acts as a reverse proxy to redirect traffic to the Node.js application instances on ports 8000-8001.

We use Ubuntu 14.04 both for the host and the container.

Application build flow:

• CI server detects a merge to the branch of the application.
• Code build process is initiated which pushes the new code to our private npm repository.
• Container build process is initiated which builds the container and pushes it to a private docker repo.

Container build process

• Ubuntu base image
• Security upgrades.
• Installation of needed packages - nodejs npm supervisor nginx.
• Copy resources from the build machine into container.
• Place .conf files in the correct location inside the container.
• Checking out the latest stable code from the npm repository (artifactory) and place in correct location
• Expose port 80.
• Container entry point - supervisord.

Amazon AMI bootstrap configuration

#AMI - c4.large - ubuntu 14.04 - user-data:
#!/bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get -y install unattended-upgrades
unattended-upgrades
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
docker login -u <user> -p <password> -e <email>
docker run -p 80:80 -d user/container

Further research

• Use lightweight linux host and container OS (CoreOS?).
• Container OS monitoring (New Relic?).
• Use of a container management service (ECS?).
• Implementation of the system on Microsoft Azure.