A Docker container that provides a simple web server that can be toggled between good and bad states.
In its good state it returns code 200. In bad, returns 500
Useful for testing load balancers and other network gear that route based on the state of a web server
Uses a redis DB to save current good/bad state
Toggles are requested via the /toggle uri
First start a redis container using the default port (latest version will do nicely)
`` sudo docker run -d --name redis redis:latest
Next, start the simple server and link to the redis server
The --link argument is formatted as <redis container name>:<resource name>
Per docker docs, the <resource name> provided will result in a bunch of environment variables in the simple-server container. Because we used <resource name>=redis, our simple-server container will include variables with a 'REDIS' prefix that describe stuff like the redis container IP address (which is different than the host IP), the ports exposed, etc. See config/simple-server.py to see how these are leveraged to read/write data to/from redis.
So, this launch ...
sudo docker run --name simple-server --link redis:redis -e "WELCOME_MESSAGE=Welcome weary traveller!" -t -p 80:8090 thomasbjackson/simple-server
Will yield us a simple-server container named "simple-server" listening on host port 80, and using the redis server to store up/down state.
## Provision a Host Behind a Proxy
Include environment variables in the docker run command (see commented out variable examples in Dockerfile)
Content type
Image
Digest
sha256:c75f77863…
Size
283.9 MB
Last updated
about 11 years ago
docker pull thomasbjackson/simple-server