graphite-api-influxdb-docker

builds the vimeo/graphite-api-influxdb docker image, with graphite-api and graphite-influxdb using baseimage-docker which means you effectively get a full working linux system with an init system, logging, etc. So you can login if anything goes wrong.

building

• install docker on your system
• make a new directory and put your own Dockerfile in it, it looks like so:

FROM vimeo/graphite-api-influxdb

• put a customized graphite-api.yaml in this directory, you can base yourself off the graphite-api.yaml in this repository

• build!

docker build .

• run !

docker run -p 8000:8000 <image-id>

enabling ssh login

add this to your Dockerfile

ADD <your-ssh-key>.pub /tmp/your_key
RUN cat /tmp/your_key >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys && rm -f /tmp/your_key

once built and running, this will allow you to login to the container like so:

docker ps # get container-id
docker inspect <container-id> # look at ip
ssh root@<ip>

http 500 errors

on /render calls, you might get http 500 responses. unfortunately we can't simply log yet what happend (i.e. which exception) or display the errors in the http response. see brutasse/graphite-api#16 but you can make a free account on getsentry.com and use that, it works nicely.