This is a sample configuration of a multiple node MooseFS cluster on Docker using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It consists of a master server with a management GUI, 5 chunkservers and one client machine. After a successful installation you have a fully working MooseFS cluster to play with its amazing features.

Cluster configurations

File docker-compose.yml

master with management GUI http://172.20.0.2:9425
chunkserver1 172.20.0.11 with 10 GiB of storage
chunkserver2 172.20.0.12 with 10 GiB of storage
chunkserver3 172.20.0.13 with 10 GiB of storage
chunkserver4 172.20.0.14 with 10 GiB of storage
chunkserver5 172.20.0.15 with 10 GiB of storage
client 172.168.20.0.5

File docker-compose-chunkserver-client.yml

master with CGI http://172.20.0.2:9425
chunkserver1 172.20.0.11 with 10 GiB of storage and client (mount point: /mnt/mfs)
chunkserver2 172.20.0.12 with 10 GiB of storage and client (mount point: /mnt/mfs)
chunkserver3 172.20.0.13 with 10 GiB of storage and client (mount point: /mnt/mfs)
chunkserver4 172.20.0.14 with 10 GiB of storage and client (mount point: /mnt/mfs)
chunkserver5 172.20.0.15 with 10 GiB of storage and client (mount point: /mnt/mfs)

Setup

Install Docker with composer from https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Clone MooseFS docker config files:

git clone https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs-docker-cluster

Start MooseFS cluster:

Go to repo directory:

cd moosefs-docker-cluster

Build and run in background:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

"-d" is for running Docker nodes in background, so Docker console output is invisible.

Check if instances are running with:

docker ps

You should have 1 master, 5 chunkservers and 1 client running. Expected output should be similar to:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                     NAMES
2fe620447b37        dockermoosefscluster_client         "/home/start-clien..."   5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes                                  client
1951d867c078        dockermoosefscluster_chunkserver5   "/home/start-chunk..."   5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes        9419-9420/tcp, 9422/tcp   chunkserver5
204c115cd8ad        dockermoosefscluster_chunkserver2   "/home/start-chunk..."   5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes        9419-9420/tcp, 9422/tcp   chunkserver2
48343721de4f        dockermoosefscluster_chunkserver4   "/home/start-chunk..."   5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes        9419-9420/tcp, 9422/tcp   chunkserver4
30ca217fa862        dockermoosefscluster_master         "/home/start.sh -d"      5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes        9420-9425/tcp             master
28e2a64d0fb9        dockermoosefscluster_chunkserver1   "/home/start-chunk..."   5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes        9419-9420/tcp, 9422/tcp   chunkserver1
c83c70580795        dockermoosefscluster_chunkserver3   "/home/start-chunk..."   5 minutes ago       Up 5 minutes        9419-9420/tcp, 9422/tcp   chunkserver3

You can attach to the client node (press "Enter" twice):

docker container attach mfsclient  #press the "Enter" key twice

To detach from container use the escape sequence Ctrl + p, Ctrl + q.

Now MooseFS filesystem is mounted as /mnt/mfs. If everything is ok you should see our welcome message with:

cd /mnt/mfs

cat welcome_to_moosefs.txt

The management GUI is available here: http://172.20.0.2:9425 (be aware of a local 172.20.0.* network).

To stop all (all means ALL, not just MooseFS's) your Docker containers:

docker stop $(docker ps -aq)

Your MooseFS Docker cluster is persistent. It means all files you created in the /mnt/mfs folder will remain there even after turning containers off.

Stop the cluster

docker-compose stop

Restart the stopped cluster

docker-compose start

Remove containers

docker-compose rm -f

Change configuration

If you want to change storage size modify the chunkserver start script moosefs-chunkserver/start-chunkserver.sh

Default configuration is stored in docker-compose.yml

Other configurations

If you want to use other than default compose yml file (docker-compose.yml) use following commands:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-chunkserver-client.yml build
docker-compose -f docker-compose-chunkserver-client.yml up -d

When using docker-compose-chunkserver-client.yml you will have 5 chunkserver/client machines so you can attach to mfschunkserverclient1, ..., mfschunkserverclient5.

Docker Hub

Image name	Pulls	Stars	Build
moosefs/master
moosefs/client
moosefs/chunkserver
moosefs/chunkserver-client

Scripts are based on Kai Sasaki's Lewuathe/docker-hadoop-cluster. Thank you Kai!