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Aerospike Enterprise Edition Docker Image

What is Aerospike?

Aerospike is a distributed NoSQL database purposefully designed for high performance web scale applications. Aerospike supports key-value and document data models, and has multiple data types including List, Map, HyperLogLog, GeoJSON, and Blob. Aerospike's patented hybrid memory architecture delivers predictable high performance at scale and high data density per node.

• Getting Started
  • Running a node with a feature key file in a mapped directory
  • Running a node with a feature key file in an environment variable
• Connecting to your Aerospike Container
  • Using aql
  • Using asadm
• Customizing the Default Developer Environment
  • List of template variables
  • Preconfigured namespace
• Advanced Configuration
  • Persistent data directory
  • Block storage
  • Persistent Lua cache
  • A note about security
  • Networking
    • Configuring the node's access address
    • Mesh clustering
• Image Versions
• Reporting Issues
• License

Getting Started

Aerospike Database Community Edition (CE) supports the same developer APIs as Aerospike Database Enterprise Edition (EE), except for durable deletes. They differ in ease of operation and enterprise features , such as compression.

Since server version 6.1, Aerospike EE starts in a single-node cluster evaluation mode, with all its enterprise features available.

docker run -d --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

Enterprise customers can override the evaluation mode by passing in their production or development feature keys.

Running a node with a feature key file in an environment variable

FEATKEY=$(base64 ~/Desktop/evaluation-features.conf)
docker run -d -e "FEATURES=$FEATKEY" -e "FEATURE_KEY_FILE=env-b64:FEATURES" --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

Running a node with a feature key file in a mapped directory

docker run -d -v DIR:/opt/aerospike/etc/ -e "FEATURE_KEY_FILE=/opt/aerospike/etc/features.conf" --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

Above, DIR is a directory on your machine where you drop your feature key file. Make sure Docker Desktop has file sharing permission to bind mount it into Docker containers.

Connecting to your Aerospike Container

You can use the latest aerospike-tools image to connect to your Aerospike container.

Using aql

docker run -ti aerospike/aerospike-tools:latest aql -h  $(docker inspect -f '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' aerospike)

Seed:         172.17.0.2
User:         None
Config File:  /etc/aerospike/astools.conf /root/.aerospike/astools.conf 
Aerospike Query Client
Version 5.0.1
C Client Version 4.6.17
Copyright 2012-2020 Aerospike. All rights reserved.
aql> show namespaces
+------------+
| namespaces |
+------------+
| "test"     |
+------------+
[172.17.0.2:3000] 1 row in set (0.002 secs)

OK

aql> help

Using asadm

docker run -ti aerospike/aerospike-tools:latest asadm -h  $(docker inspect -f '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' aerospike)

Seed:        [('172.17.0.2', 3000, None)]
Config_file: /root/.aerospike/astools.conf, /etc/aerospike/astools.conf
Aerospike Interactive Shell, version 0.6.0

Found 1 nodes
Online:  172.17.0.2:3000

Admin> info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Network Information (2021-04-17 06:03:07 UTC)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
           Node               Node                Ip       Build   Cluster   Migrations        Cluster     Cluster         Principal   Client     Uptime   
              .                 Id                 .           .      Size            .            Key   Integrity                 .    Conns          .   
172.17.0.2:3000   *BB9020011AC4202   172.17.0.2:3000   E-5.5.0.7         1      0.000     D7E8EE69743C   True        BB9020011AC4202        1   00:08:40   
Number of rows: 1

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Namespace Usage Information (2021-04-17 06:03:07 UTC)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Namespace              Node     Total   Expirations,Evictions     Stop       Disk    Disk     HWM   Avail%        Mem     Mem    HWM      Stop      PI         PI      PI     PI   
        .                 .   Records                       .   Writes       Used   Used%   Disk%        .       Used   Used%   Mem%   Writes%    Type       Used   Used%   HWM%   
test        172.17.0.2:3000   0.000     (0.000,  0.000)         false    0.000 B    0       0       99       0.000 B    0       0      90        shmem   0.000 B    N/E     N/E    
test                          0.000     (0.000,  0.000)                  0.000 B                             0.000 B                                     0.000 B                   
Number of rows: 2

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Namespace Object Information (2021-04-17 06:03:07 UTC)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Namespace              Node     Total     Repl                      Objects                   Tombstones             Pending   Rack   
        .                 .   Records   Factor   (Master,Prole,Non-Replica)   (Master,Prole,Non-Replica)            Migrates     ID   
        .                 .         .        .                            .                            .             (tx,rx)      .   
test        172.17.0.2:3000   0.000     1        (0.000,  0.000,  0.000)      (0.000,  0.000,  0.000)      (0.000,  0.000)     0      
test                          0.000              (0.000,  0.000,  0.000)      (0.000,  0.000,  0.000)      (0.000,  0.000)            
Number of rows: 2

Customizing the Default Developer Environment

The Aerospike EE Docker image comes with a default configuration file, which sets up a single node, single namespace developer environment. Alternatively, you can provide your own configuration file (see below).

You can inject parameters into the default configuration template using container-side environment variables with the -e flag.

For example, to set the default namespace name to demo:

docker run -d --name aerospike -e "NAMESPACE=demo" -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 -v /my/dir:/opt/aerospike/etc/ -e "FEATURE_KEY_FILE=/opt/aerospike/etc/features.conf" aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

Injecting configuration parameters into the configuration template isn't compatible with providing a configuration file. You can use one or the other.

List of template variables

FEATURE_KEY_FILE

The feature_key_file. Default: /etc/aerospike/features.conf

LOGFILE

The file param of the logging context. Default: /dev/null, do not log to file, log to stdout.

SERVICE_ADDRESS

The bind address of the networking.service subcontext. Default: any

SERVICE_PORT

The port of the networking.service subcontext. Default: 3000

Preconfigured namespace

The single preconfigured namespace has the following variables:

NAMESPACE

The name of the namespace. Default: test

DATA_IN_MEMORY

The storage-engine data-in-memory setting. If false (default), the namespace only stores the index in memory, and all reads and writes are served from the file system. If true the namespace storage is in-memory with file system persistence, meaning that reads and writes happen from a full in-memory copy, and a synchronous write persists to disk.

DEFAULT_TTL

The namespace default-ttl. Default: 30d

MEM_GB

The namespace memory-size. Default: 1, the unit is always G (GB)

NSUP_PERIOD

The namespace nsup-period. Default: 120 , nsup-period in seconds

STORAGE_GB

The namespace persistence file size. Default: 4, the unit is always G (GB)

Advanced Configuration

You can override the default configuration file by providing your own aerospike.conf, as described in Configuring Aerospike Database.

You should first -v map a local directory, which Docker will bind mount. Next, drop your aerospike.conf file into this directory. Finally, use the --config-file option to tell Aerospike where in the container the configuration file is (the default path is /etc/aerospike/aerospike.conf). Remember that the feature key file is required, so use feature-key-file in your configuration file to point to a mounted path (such as /opt/aerospike/etc/feature.conf).

For example:

docker run -d -v /opt/aerospike/etc/:/opt/aerospike/etc/ --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise --config-file /opt/aerospike/etc/aerospike.conf

Persistent data directory

With Docker, the files within the container are not persisted past the life of the container. To persist data, you will want to mount a directory from the host to the container's /opt/aerospike/data using the -v option:

For example:

docker run -d  -v /opt/aerospike/data:/opt/aerospike/data  -v /opt/aerospike/etc:/opt/aerospike/etc/ --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 -e "FEATURE_KEY_FILE=/opt/aerospike/etc/features.conf" aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

The example above uses the configuration template, where the single defined namespace is in-memory with file-based persistence. Just mounting the predefined /opt/aerospike/data directory enables the data to be persisted on the host.

Alternatively, your custom configuration file is used with the parameter file set to be a file in the mounted /opt/aerospike/data, such as in the following config snippet:

namespace test {
    # :
    storage-engine device {
        file /opt/aerospike/data/test.dat
        filesize 4G
        data-in-memory true
    }
}

In this example we also mount the data directory in a similar way, using a custom configuration file

docker run -d -v /opt/aerospike/data:/opt/aerospike/data -v /opt/aerospike/etc/:/opt/aerospike/etc/ --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 --config-file /opt/aerospike/etc/aerospike.conf aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

Block storage

Docker provides an ability to expose a host's block devices to a running container. The --device option can be used to map a host block device within a container.

Update the storage-engine device section of the namespace in the custom Aerospike configuration file.

namespace test {
    # :
    storage-engine device {
        device /dev/xvdc
        write-block-size 128k
    }
}

Now to map a host drive /dev/sdc to /dev/xvdc on a container

docker run -d --device '/dev/sdc:/dev/xvdc' -v /opt/aerospike/etc/:/opt/aerospike/etc/ --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 --config-file /opt/aerospike/etc/aerospike.conf aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

Persistent Lua cache

Upon restart, your Lua cache will become emptied. To persist the cache, you will want to mount a directory from the host to the container's /opt/aerospike/usr/udf/lua using the -v option:

docker run -d -v /opt/aerospike/lua:/opt/aerospike/usr/udf/lua -v /opt/aerospike/data:/opt/aerospike/data --name aerospike -p 3000-3002:3000-3002 --config-file /opt/aerospike/etc/aerospike.conf aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise

A note about security

For convenience, this image does not have security turned on by default, but it is a core Aerospike EE feature. The knowledge base article How To secure Aerospike database servers covers the topic well.

And Now for a Security Reminder that bad things can happen to good people.

Also see the knowledge base article How To secure Aerospike database servers.

Networking

Developers using the Aerospike EE single-node evaluation, and most others using Docker Desktop on their machine for development, will not need to configure the node for clustering. If you're interested in using clustering and have a feature key file without a single node limit, read the following sections.

Configuring the node's access address

In order for the Aerospike node to properly broadcast its address to the cluster and applications, the access-address configuration parameter needs to be set in the configuration file. If it is not set, then the IP address within the container will be used, which is not accessible to other nodes.

    network {
        service {
            address any                  # Listening IP Address
            port 3000                    # Listening Port
            access-address 192.168.1.100 # IP Address used by cluster nodes and applications
        }

    ...
    }

Mesh clustering

See How do I get a 2 nodes Aerospike cluster running quickly in Docker without editing a single file?

Image Versions

These images are based on debian:buster-slim.

Reporting Issues

Aerospike EE evaluation users, if you have any problems with or questions about this image, please post on the Aerospike discussion forum or open an issue in aerospike/aerospike-server-enterprise.docker.

Enterprise customers are welcome to participate in the community forum, but can also report issues through the enterprise support system.

License

If you are using the Aerospike Database EE evaluation feature key file, you are operating under the Aerospike Evaluation License Agreement.

If you are using a feature key file you received as part of your commercial enterprise license, you are operating under the Aerospike Master License Agreement.