mlDocker - A MarkLogic Cluster hosted on Docker

Preparation Tasks

Please refer to http://docs.docker.com for installing docker and to get started with docker. I recommend the getting started sections (http://docs.docker.com/mac/started/ or http://docs.docker.com/mac/started/ for mac and windows) for a quick start and installation of the docker toolbox including docker, docker-machine, docker-compose, virtual-box etc.

See Dockerfile for details, on how to build a docker image and spin up a docker container with a MarkLogic 8 server. You will also find information about which network ports are exposed for this demo application. The Dockerfile presumes that MarkLogic-8.0-3.x86_64.rpm is located in the same directory as the dockerfile.

Installation Process

1. Build the docker image using the Dockerfile.

2. Use docker-compose and its confoguration file docker-compose.yml in order to spin up three docker containers each running MarkLogic

3. Use MarkLogic Management API (or MarkScript) to setup the cluster by installing a standalone marklogic server in the one container and adding the two MarkLogic servers to the cluster.

4. Bootstrap an application and configure high availability with forest-failover

The folder roxyApp contains a roxy project. It is used to bootstrap a base application (including a content and modules database) in MarkLogic:

• Edit the property file under roxyApp/deply/local.properties and set the bootstrap-server property to the IP of your docker host (docker machine) that hosts the marklogic containers.
• Run the following commads: ** ./ml local bootstrap ** ./ml local bootstrap --replicate-internals

more to come - this is still under construction.