Docker

Building with Docker

The samples rely on Docker for both the Genvid Services and for building and running the website. Although you can install a version of Docker locally, creating a Docker build server directly on Amazon EC2 is a simpler alternative. (Docker Machine)

See Install Docker on Windows for more information about installing locally.

The first step is to find an availability zone you can use:

aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --query AvailabilityZones[0].ZoneName --output text

This returns a name where the last letter corresponds to the availability zone and everything else is the region. For example, for the name us-east-1b:

  • The region name is us-east-1
  • The availability zone is b

To create a Docker machine on this availability zone:

bin\docker-machine create --driver amazonec2 --amazonec2-region us-east-1 --amazonec2-zone b [docker-name]

The [docker-name] is a unique name to refer to the machine.

When you’re done with the machine, you can shut it down using:

bin\docker-machine rm [docker-name]

Building Your Project

The Tutorial sample has only a small amount of content. So we can build an archive and make it available for upload under the images subdirectory. This command also builds the website which requires Docker to succeed, so you need to advertise your Docker installation or server.

# On Windows command prompt
@FOR /f "tokens=*" %i IN ('"bin\docker-machine" env [docker-name]') DO @%i
# On bash for Windows
eval $(bin/docker-machine env [docker-name])
# With Powershell
bin/docker-machine env [docker-name] | Invoke-Expression

Where [docker-name] is the name you chose or default if you’re running Docker locally. When the command finishes, you can build the game.

cd samples/tutorial
py tutorial.py build-cloud

This builds two archives in the images subdirectory. Note that the script puts a checksum in the image name and removes any old images. A production version of the script should probably be more conservative and keep the old version.