Introduction

As CluedIn is a complex platform, CluedIn is providing you a template on how to run CluedIn using docker locally on your machine.

Requirements

• Windows version 1903 or greater
• Latest version of Docker for Windows (> 19.03.4)
• Docker experimental features turned on
• Docker set up to run Windows containers
• Access to the private repositories inside the cluedin DockerHub organization. You will require a Docker Hub account and request access from CluedIn; then use this account to do a docker login. NOTE: Only CluedIn certified developers have access to the CluedIn DockerHub.

You can verify if you satisfy these requirements and you can run simultaneously Windows and Linux containers by opening a Powershell console and running:

docker info | sls 'Storage Driver'

The returned value should be:

 Storage Driver: windowsfilter (windows) lcow (linux)

Running CluedIn

First time preparation

1. Clone the Simple-Docker-Deployment

    git clone https://github.com/CluedIn-io/Simple-Docker-Deployment
   

2. Pull latest images

    docker-compose pull
   

3. Open an administrator Powershell console, run ./pki/Create-Certificates.ps1 -Trust.

Starting the application

The application is run doing a via docker-compose You can then bring the application up doing:

docker-compose up -d

You can check if the the different services are created running:

docker-compose ps

The CluedIn server component takes a while to boot up. You can verify it is starting correctly:

docker-compose logs -f server

The server will be ready when you see the message Server Started. Open your browser and CluedIn should be available under https://app.127.0.0.1.xip.io.

In order to use CluedIn you need to create an organization. There are two ways to do this

• Using a script. In a Powershell console run bootstrap/Create-Organization.ps1. This will create an organization with the following parameters:

  name	foobar
  url	https://foobar.127.0.0.1.xip.io
  admin	admin@foobar.com
  password	foobar23

  These values can be overridden by passing parameters to the Powershell script

• Using the UI

  1. Navigate to the https://app.127.0.0.1.xip.io/signup page.
  2. Fill in an email address (it can be fictitious)
  3. Check the /emails folder. You should be able to open the file with the standard Mail application from Windows by double clicking on it.
  4. Click on the Setup my organization link in the email
  5. Fill in the information and click in Sign up
  6. You will be redirected to the login screen. Simply add the information created in the step above.

Stopping the application

You can then stop and start the stack, using the usual docker-compose commands

docker-compose down # containers are removed, data is kept 
docker-compose down -v # containers are removed and data is lost

If you need to remove the certificates you can run

./pki/Remove-Certificates.ps1

Adding extra components

You can add extra providers or enrichers in two different ways:

1. Via Nuget packages
   1. Add a a file named Packages.txt in the ./components folder with the names of the nuget packages for the components you want to install.
   2. If the Nuget packages are not available publicly add a nuget.config file in the ./components folder. Either pass the password token to the nuget.config or create a KEY environment variable with it.
2. Copy the relevant DLLs for the components in the ./components folder.