apacheapex/sandbox repository overview

⁠Apache Apex⁠ test sandbox

This repository contains a ready to use Apache Apex⁠ test sandbox docker image in which hadoop and apex is preinstalled and running. All one need to do is launch this docker image and start playing with apex.

⁠Basic

⁠Run apex docker container

This will create and start a docker container from the docker image.

docker run -it --name=apex-sandbox apacheapex/sandbox

⁠Start apex cli after launching docker container

apex@62550653e2d8:~$ apex
Apex CLI 3.5.0 15.06.2016 @ 08:20:44 UTC rev: 85a2bdd branch: 85a2bdd9bfce49a904b45a4d0d015434d1a89216
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⁠Advanced

⁠Linux user information

Username: apex

Password: apex

NOTE: User "apex" is added in sudoers list and is provided with root privileges.

⁠Run docker container with host directory mounted

This will create and start a docker container and docker images while mounting local filesystem directory as a mount point inside docker container.

docker run -it --name=apex-sandbox -v /local/path/to/mount:/mount_location apacheapex/sandbox

⁠Start already created docker container

docker start -i apex-sandbox

⁠Hadoop and YARN WebUI from local machine

Following command will map yarn and hadoop ports exposed inside docker container to be mapped to ports of host machine.

docker run -it --name=apex-sandbox -p 50070:50070 -p 8088:8088 apacheapex/sandbox

After docker has started, one can point host machine's browser to localhost:50070 and localhost:8088 to see hadoop and yarn WebUI respectively.