I have a set of docker containers that are generated from yaml files. These containers work ok - I can access localhost, ping http://web from the nginx container, and list the port mapping (see snippet1)
I now want to deploy them to another machine, so I used the docker commit, save, load, and run to create an image, copy the image and deploy new containers (see snippet2).
But after I deploy the containers, they don't run properly (I cannot access localhost, cannot ping http://web from the nginx container, and port mapping is empty - see snippet3)
The .yml file is in snippet4
and the nginx .conf files are in snippet5
What can be the problem?
Thanks,
Avner
EDIT:
From the responses below, I understand that instead of using "docker commit", I should build the container on the remote host using one of 2 options:
option1 - copy the code to the remote host and apply a modified docker-compose, and build from source using a modified docker-compose
option2 - create an image on local machine, push it to a docker repository, pull it from there, using a modified docker-compose
I'm trying to follow option1 (as a start), but still have problems. I filed a new post here that describes the problem
END EDIT:
snippet1 - original containers work ok
# the original containers
docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
26ba325e737d webserver_nginx "nginx -g 'daemon of…" 3 hours ago Up 43 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 443/tcp webserver_nginx_1
08ef8a443658 webserver_web "flask run --host=0.…" 3 hours ago Up 43 minutes 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp webserver_web_1
33c13a308139 webserver_postgres "docker-entrypoint.s…" 3 hours ago Up 43 minutes 0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp webserver_postgres_1
# can access localhost
curl http://localhost:80
<!DOCTYPE html>
...
# can ping web container from the nginx container
docker exec -it webserver_nginx_1 bash
root@26ba325e737d:/# ping web
PING web (172.18.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.18.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.138 ms
64 bytes from 172.18.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms
...
# List port mappings for the container
docker port webserver_nginx_1
80/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:80
snippet2 - deploy the containers (currently still using the deployed containers on localhost)
# create new docker images from the containers
docker commit webserver_nginx_1 webserver_nginx_image2
docker commit webserver_postgres_1 webserver_postgres_image2
docker commit webserver_web_1 webserver_web_image2
# save the docker images into .tar files
docker save webserver_nginx_image2 > /tmp/webserver_nginx_image2.tar
docker save webserver_postgres_image2 > /tmp/webserver_postgres_image2.tar
docker save webserver_web_image2 > /tmp/webserver_web_image2.tar
# load the docker images from tar files
cat /tmp/webserver_nginx_image2.tar | docker load
cat /tmp/webserver_postgres_image2.tar | docker load
cat /tmp/webserver_web_image2.tar | docker load
# Create containers from the new images
docker run -d --name webserver_web_2 webserver_web_image2
docker run -d --name webserver_postgres_2 webserver_postgres_image2
docker run -d --name webserver_nginx_2 webserver_nginx_image2
# stop the original containers and start the deployed containers
docker stop webserver_web_1 webserver_nginx_1 webserver_postgres_1
docker stop webserver_web_2 webserver_nginx_2 webserver_postgres_2
docker start webserver_web_2 webserver_nginx_2 webserver_postgres_2
snippet3 - deployed containers don't work
# the deployed containers
docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
15ef8bfc0ceb webserver_nginx_image2 "nginx -g 'daemon of…" 3 hours ago Up 4 seconds 80/tcp, 443/tcp webserver_nginx_2
d6d228599f81 webserver_postgres_image2 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 3 hours ago Up 3 seconds 5432/tcp webserver_postgres_2
a8aac280ea01 webserver_web_image2 "flask run --host=0.…" 3 hours ago Up 4 seconds 8000/tcp webserver_web_2
# can NOT access localhost
curl http://localhost:80
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused
# can NOT ping web container from the nginx container
docker exec -it webserver_nginx_2 bash
root@15ef8bfc0ceb:/# ping web
ping: unknown host
# List port mappings for the container
docker port webserver_nginx_2
# nothing is being shown
snippet4 - the .yml files
cat /home/user/webServer/docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
web:
restart: always
build: ./web
expose:
- "8000"
volumes:
- /home/user/webServer/web:/home/flask/app/web
command: /usr/local/bin/gunicorn -w 2 -t 3600 -b :8000 project:app
depends_on:
- postgres
stdin_open: true
tty: true
nginx:
restart: always
build: ./nginx
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- /home/user/webServer/web:/home/flask/app/web
depends_on:
- web
postgres:
restart: always
build: ./postgresql
volumes:
- data1:/var/lib/postgresql
expose:
- "5432"
volumes:
data1:
,
cat /home/user/webServer/docker-compose.override.yml
version: '3'
services:
web:
build: ./web
ports:
- "8000:8000"
environment:
- PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
- FLASK_APP=run.py
- FLASK_DEBUG=1
volumes:
- /home/user/webServer/web:/usr/src/app/web
- /home/user/webClient/:/usr/src/app/web/V1
command: flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port 8000
nginx:
volumes:
- /home/user/webServer/web:/usr/src/app/web
- /home/user/webClient/:/usr/src/app/web/V1
depends_on:
- web
postgres:
ports:
- "5432:5432"
snippet5 - the nginx .conf files
cat /home/user/webServer/nginx/nginx.conf
# Define the user that will own and run the Nginx server
user nginx;
# Define the number of worker processes; recommended value is the number of
# cores that are being used by your server
worker_processes 1;
# Define the location on the file system of the error log, plus the minimum
# severity to log messages for
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
# Define the file that will store the process ID of the main NGINX process
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
# events block defines the parameters that affect connection processing.
events {
# Define the maximum number of simultaneous connections that can be opened by a worker process
worker_connections 1024;
}
# http block defines the parameters for how NGINX should handle HTTP web traffic
http {
# Include the file defining the list of file types that are supported by NGINX
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
# Define the default file type that is returned to the user
default_type text/html;
# Define the format of log messages.
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
# Define the location of the log of access attempts to NGINX
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
# Define the parameters to optimize the delivery of static content
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
# Define the timeout value for keep-alive connections with the client
keepalive_timeout 65;
# Define the usage of the gzip compression algorithm to reduce the amount of data to transmit
#gzip on;
# Include additional parameters for virtual host(s)/server(s)
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
,
cat /home/user/webServer/nginx/myapp.conf
# Define the parameters for a specific virtual host/server
server {
# Define the server name, IP address, and/or port of the server
listen 80;
# Define the specified charset to the “Content-Type” response header field
charset utf-8;
# Configure NGINX to deliver static content from the specified folder
location /static {
alias /home/flask/app/web/instance;
}
location /foo {
root /usr/src/app/web;
index index5.html;
}
location /V1 {
root /usr/src/app/web;
index index.html;
}
# Configure NGINX to reverse proxy HTTP requests to the upstream server (Gunicorn (WSGI server))
location / {
root /;
index index1.html;
resolver 127.0.0.11;
set $example "web:8000";
proxy_pass http://$example;
# Redefine the header fields that NGINX sends to the upstream server
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
# Define the maximum file size on file uploads
client_max_body_size 10M;
client_body_buffer_size 10M;
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
#
# Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
#
# Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain; charset=utf-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
if ($request_method = 'POST') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
}
if ($request_method = 'GET') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
}
}
}