nectify/hornet repository overview

⁠Hornet-docker

• Dockerfile⁠

⁠Description

Hornet-docker offers a dockerization of Hornet, a realtime engine originally built for Fresc⁠.

You can find all informations about Hornet on its Github repository⁠.

This docker image is based on the official Redis Docker repository⁠, and is powered by Supervisor⁠ to control both processes of Redis and Hornet.

⁠Build it

Build this dockerfile by :

$ docker build -t hornet .

⁠Run it

Run the built hornet image by :

$ docker run --name some-hornet -p 8187:8187 -d hornet

You can also get the image from the Nectify DockerHub⁠ :

$ docker run --name some-hornet -p 8187:8187 -d nectify/hornet

⁠Link it

Connect the Hornet container from your application :

$ docker run --name some-app --link some-hornet:hornet -d application-that-uses-hornet

Docker will provide to your some-app container some useful environment variables with informations about Hornet address :

• HORNET_PORT_8187_TCP_ADDR : IP address of the container
• HORNET_PORT_8187_TCP_PORT : port number for Hornet

⁠Exposed ports

• 8187 : default port for Hornet
• 6379 : default port for Redis (from its Dockerfile⁠)

⁠Get the logs

Supervisor provides logs for Hornet and Redis.

These logs are in the directory /var/log/supervisor.

Share it with your Docker host by mounting it as a volume :

$ docker run --name some-hornet -p 8187:8187 -v /path/from/host:/var/log/supervisor -d hornet

⁠License

• This Dockerfile and Hornet are distributed under Apache 2 License⁠.
• View license information for Redis⁠.
• npm is released under the Artistic License 2.0⁠.
• Supervisor is released under the ZPL-derived license⁠.