docker container?

[Bess Sadler]

Dear Globus community,

I am in the process of setting up a Globus end point and attempting to integrate it into a data repository system. We use docker and Kubernetes for the rest of this application, and I'd very much like to have a docker image for Globus. I have looked on the internet for a docker image of Globus 4.x and I have not so far found one. Before I start attempting to make one myself, can anyone tell me whether such a thing already exists?

Thanks very much!

Bess Sadler

Notch8 Software

[Chandin Wilson]

From: Bess Sadler <be...@notch8.com>
Subject: [Globus Discuss] docker container?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:38:38 -0800 (PST)

> I am in the process of setting up a Globus end point and attempting to integrate it into a data repository system. We use docker and Kubernetes for the rest of this application, and I'd very much like to have a docker image for Globus. I have
> looked on the internet for a docker image of Globus 4.x and I have not so far found one. Before I start attempting to make one myself, can anyone tell me whether such a thing already exists?

Bess,

I didn't see anything when I went looking ~6-9 months ago.

Here's a starting point based on Centos7. It's a "fat" image that can have lots of stuff removed from the base c7 image:


FROM centos:7

USER root

# setup network
# reference from https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1240#issuecomment-21807183
RUN echo "NETWORKING=yes" > /etc/sysconfig/network

# Globus Connect Server
RUN curl -LOs https://downloads.globus.org/toolkit/globus-connect-server/globus-connect-server-repo-latest.noarch.rpm \
&& yum -y install globus-connect-server-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
RUN curl -LOs https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm \
&& yum -y install epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities \
&& yum -y install globus-connect-server


This will get you a docker image with the globus-connect-server installed. For our use I then proceed to install sssd-ldap and copy in an sssd.conf for our environment, along with a globus-connect-server.conf.
Then the ENTRYPOINT is set to a small shell script that starts sssd and runs globus-connect-server-setup, using the environment variables GLOBUS_USER and GLOBUS_PASSWORD, to register the endpoint with Globus. Finally the globus-gridftp-server is started.

We then start this container at bootup time, mounting the "external" volumes as needed into the container.

Hope this helps,

--Chan

Chan Wilson NOAA GFDL & RDHPCS Toolsmith
General Specialist, Information Technology and Agriculture
chandin...@noaa.gov +1-608-216-5689

[Bess Sadler]

Chan, thank you so much, I will give this a try!

Jeffery, yes please, I would gladly take any advice you have on how to make things work.

Thank you!

Bess Sadler

Notch8 Software

[rapier]

This is *old* but it may be a useful starting point
https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/jbasney/globus-centos6

This one looks newer but I haven't really looked at it yet
https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/dtnaas/globus/tags?page=1&ordering=last_updated

On 1/20/21 5:26 PM, Bess Sadler wrote:
> Chan, thank you so much, I will give this a try!
>
> Jeffery, yes please, I would gladly take any advice you have on how to
> make things work.
>
> Thank you!
> Bess Sadler
> Notch8 Software
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:15 PM Chandin Wilson <chandin...@noaa.gov

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[Marshall McDonnell]

Bess,

Sorry for delay, just joining the group and noticed your question.

I had worked on this myself over last few months.

Had exact same use case of mostly containerized applications except the GCS v4.

I did get this to work for me using Terraform to provision a server on AWS and then run it via a Docker contianer:

https://github.com/marshallmcdonnell/terraform-aws-globus-connect-server-v4

I will be honest though, I was ultimately targeting an on-prem OpenStack cloud so once I got this project so far as a prototype, I switched to working on that one.

I'd be happy to help, though!

Still have an invested interest.

But I am trying to migrate over to Globus Connect Server v5 in our application.

Best,
Marshall