Docker environment for SimpleMonitor

Caveat: I'm not a Docker expert :)

Just Docker

To build a Docker container, place your monitor.ini and monitors.ini files in the top level of the repo (i.e. not in the docker directory) and build a container:

docker build -f docker/monitor.Dockerfile .

You should now be able to run this container. Note that if you update your configuration, you will need to rebuild the container.

You should be able to use Alerters OK from this set up, but using loggers may require some work (to get the file(s) out of the container); something like a volume mount I expect. (See note at top of file.)

docker-compose

The docker-compose stack runs a SimpleMonitor container and a webserver container, so you can use the HTML Logger. It also pre-configures a _monitor-export directory between the container and the host you can use to share files.

To use it, place your configuration files in the top level of the repo and build the containers:

docker-compose build

and then you can run it all:

docker-compose run

You can access the webserver on localhost:8000. If you update your configuration you will need to rebuild the monitor container: docker-compose build monitor.