Containerized Services¶

last updated on: Sep 30, 2024¶

Introduction¶

Each of Access Anywhere's containerized services consists of one or more Docker containers. Services are defined and managed using Docker Compose. Docker With Docker Compose, each service can be started and stopped as a unit. Compose takes care of starting and stopping the containers that make up the service.

Containerized Service Configuration¶

Each Access Anywhere containerized service is described in a configuration file called .yaml. These configuration files are stored in directories in:

/var/www/smestorage/containers/<service_name>

There is a directory for each service. Depending on the service, there may also be additional configuration files in the service's directory.

Available Containerized Services¶

(Note that some services require enablement in Access Anywhere's license key.)

Access Anywhere service	Docker Compose service name	Access Anywhere volume
CIFS Locking	cifs-locker
Content Extraction and Transcoding	content-extraction	/tmp
Document Previewer	document-previewer
Keycloak (deprecated)	keycloak
Redis	redis	/var/redis (as of 2402)
Content Indexing	solr	/var/solr
Content Indexing Replication	solr-replicas
PDF Burner	pdfburner
CloudFTP	cloudftp
Memcache	memcached

As of July 2022 containerized Memcache is available for manual installation as described here.

Checking Status of Containerized Services¶

To check the status of a containerized service, become root and cd to the service's configuration directory. Then use:

docker-compose ps

Starting and Stopping Containerized Services¶

To stop a containerized service, become root and cd to the service's configuration directory. Then use:

docker-compose down

For example:

root@appliance:/var/www/smestorage/containers/redis # docker-compose down
Removing redis_redis_1 ... done
Removing network redis_default
root@appliance:/var/www/smestorage/containers/redis #

To start a containerized service, become root and cd to the service's configuration directory. Then use:

docker-compose up -d

For example:

root@appliance:/var/www/smestorage/containers/redis # docker-compose up -d
Creating network "redis_default" with the default driver
Creating redis_redis_1 ... done
root@appliance:/var/www/smestorage/containers/redis #

Accessing Logs for Containerized Services¶

Each containerized service consists of one or more containers. Logs are accessed at the container level, not the service level.

To see the containers that make up a containerized service, first run "docker -ps" as root from the service's directory. The container names are listed in the leftmost column, for example:

To tail the log for a container, run this command:

docker logs -f <container_name>

substituting the name of the container for .