The current Dockerfile is based on a CentOS 6 image, downloads JDK 8, clone the Apache Geode git repository, starts a build and execute the basic tests.

docker build -t apachegeode/geode:nightly .

This may take a while depending on your internet connection, but it's worth since this is a one time step and you endup with a container that is tested and ready to be used for development. It will download Gradle and as part of the build, project dependencies as well.

1. Then you can start gfsh as well in order to perform more commands:

docker run -it -p 10334:10334 -p 7575:7575 -p 1099:1099  apachegeode/geode:nightly gfsh

From this point you can pretty much follow Apache Geode in 5 minutes for example:

start server --name=server1

But in order to have real fun with containers you are probably better off using something like docker-compose or kubernetes. Those examples will come next.

Install docker-compose following the instructions on this link and move into the composer directory.

There is a docker-compose.yml example file there with a locator and a server. To start the cluster execute:

docker-compose up

Or in order to start it in background:

docker-compose up -d

Do a docker ps and identify the container ID for the locator. Now you can use gfsh on this container and connect to the distributed system:

docker exec -it <locator_container_id> gfsh
gfsh>connect --locator=locator[10334]
Connecting to Locator at [host=locator, port=10334] ..
Connecting to Manager at [host=192.168.99.100, port=1099] ..
Successfully connected to: [host=192.168.99.100, port=1099]

gfsh>list members
    Name     | Id
    ------------ | --------------------------------------
    locator      | locator(locator:33:locator)<v0>:1351
    6e96cc0f6b72 | 172.17.1.92(6e96cc0f6b72:34)<v1>:28140

Type exit and now to scale the cluster you can leverage docker-compose scale command. For example:

docker-compose scale server=3

This will start 2 extra Geode server containers. You can verify this step by repeating the last GFSH step and listing the members.