Running Spyglass in a Docker Image

This is a guide to creating a docker image locally and running Spyglass in the docker image.

1. Before creating the Spyglass image, ensure you have cloned Spyglass, Spyglass Excel plugin, and that you have installed Docker CE.

  1. Update the Makefile with desired Linux distribution:

    DISTRO=(ubuntu_xenial or ubuntu_bionic or opensuse_15)

3. If necessary, change the PROXY variable to your proxy and change the USE_PROXY to true in the Makefile.

4. Go to the Spyglass directory in Terminal and run make images. When the build is done, you will see Successfully built <DOCKER_IMAGE>

5. From your home directory, create a new directory to store the output from docker with the following command:

mkdir -p ~/tmp/spyglass

6. Run Spyglass with the following command. The -v tag is used to mount the necessary local folders to the docker image . You must use the full path to the local folders you are mounting to. The path following the ‘:’ is a path inside the docker container. These folders will be made automatically by docker. (The directory you are mounting to must be ‘mnt’ or another directory owned by airship user in the docker image)

docker run -v /path/to/input/files:/mnt/input \
-v ~/tmp/spyglass:/mnt/output \
<DOCKER_IMAGE> spyglass excel documents -i \
-x /mnt/input/<excel_file_name> \
-e /mnt/input/<excel_spec_name> \
-c /mnt/input/<site_config_name> \
-s <site_name> -t /mnt/input/<templates_folder> \
-d /mnt/output -m /mnt/output

Example

The following shows the command used to create the site manifest and intermediary in the docker container using the example files provided in Spyglass and the Spyglass Excel Plugin. (/root/path/ is the path to spyglass in your directory)

docker run \
-v /root/path/spyglass/spyglass/examples/:/mnt/examples \
-v /root/path/spyglass-plugin-xls/spyglass_plugin_xls/examples:/mnt/examples_xls \
-v ~/tmp/spyglass:/mnt/output \
<DOCKER_IMAGE> spyglass excel documents -i \
-x /mnt/examples_xls/SiteDesignSpec_v0.1.xlsx \
-e /mnt/examples_xls/excel_spec.yaml \
-c /mnt/examples/site_config.yaml \
-s airship-seaworthy \
-t /mnt/examples/templates \
-d /mnt/output/ \
-m /mnt/output/