RethinkDB is an open source NoSQL database that stores documents in JSON format and makes real-time insertion, updating and searching easy (more info on the rethinkDB site and on wikipedia).

The idea is to build a Docker image through a Dockerfile, using Debian Jessie as the base. Although you can directly use the RethinkDB image found on the docker hub.

The previous articles about Docker are:

  1. Installing Docker on Debian Jessie

  2. Using Docker on Debian Jessie (part 1)

  3. Using Docker on Debian Jessie (part 2)

  4. Creating a Docker image from a Dockerfile

  5. Starting Django using Docker

  6. Installing Gitlab through Docker

  7. Running microservices with docker using docker-compose

  8. Docker in Docker (DinD)

  9. Starting Django with docker using docker-compose with postgresql as a microservice.

  10. Importing a Docker container in Python.

  11. Sharing Docker images through tar files.

  12. Creating a private Docker image registry.

  13. Using Anaconda from a Docker container.

  14. Creating a Continuous Integration and Deployment environment with Docker for node.js.

  15. Using Jupyter Notebook from a Docker container.

  16. Running a doctest test with a Docker container.

  17. Running a unittest test in Python with a Docker container.

  18. Setting up a Platform as a Service (PaaS) with Dokku (docker).

  19. Using docker-machine.

  20. Provisioning a cluster with docker swarm and docker-machine.

  21. Installing Jenkins through Docker and creating a Jenkins Docker image

  22. Automating the building of Docker images with github.

  23. Creating a Docker image for MongoDB3.

  24. Creating a Docker container as a development environment for Sails.js.

  25. Running desktop applications from a Docker container.

  26. Using dockerui to manage Docker images and containers

The Dockerfile takes part of the official file from the RethinkDB site; the idea is to create the image from Debian Jessie (you can see the dockerfile at the following link).

The Dockerfile file is the following:

#Base de Debian Jessie
FROM debian
#Mantenedor
MAINTAINER Ernesto Crespo <ecrespo@gmail.com>


# instalar RethinkDB
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common
RUN apt-get install -y wget 
RUN sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt `lsb_release -cs` main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list'
RUN sh -c 'wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -'
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y rethinkdb

#Se define el volumen donde se almacena los datos
VOLUME ["/data"]

#Se define el directorio de trabajo
WORKDIR /data

#Se ejecuta rethinkdb asociando todas las interfaces existentes en el contenedor
CMD ["rethinkdb", "--bind", "all"]

#   proceso, cluster webui
EXPOSE 28015 29015 8080

To build the image, run:

docker build -t debian-rethinkdb .

And to run the container (the /data volume is bound to the directory where the container is run):

docker run --name some-rethink -v "$PWD:/data" -d debian-rethinkdb

To see the rethingDB web administration interface, run (chromium case):

chromium "http://$(docker inspect --format  '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' some-rethink):8080"

A screenshot of the web application is shown below:

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