diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 4ff695baf5..c0c24ebd78 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Hector Castro Hunter Blanks Isao Jonas James Carr +James Turnbull Jason McVetta Jean-Baptiste Barth Jeff Lindsay diff --git a/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst b/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst index d6a42dde7a..1b91b8451d 100644 --- a/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst +++ b/docs/sources/examples/linking_into_redis.rst @@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ Linking Redis .. include:: example_header.inc -Building a redis container to link as a child of our web application. +Building a Redis container to link as a child of our web application. -Building the redis container +Building the Redis container ---------------------------- -Lets build a redis image with the following Dockerfile. +Lets build a Redis image with the following Dockerfile. + +First checkout the Redis source code. .. code-block:: bash @@ -22,7 +24,10 @@ Lets build a redis image with the following Dockerfile. cd redis git checkout 2.6 - # Save this Dockerfile to the root of the redis repository. + +Now let's create a Dockerfile in the root of the Redis repository. + +.. code-block:: bash # Build redis from source # Make sure you have the redis source code checked out in @@ -51,37 +56,37 @@ Lets build a redis image with the following Dockerfile. We need to ``EXPOSE`` the default port of 6379 so that our link knows what ports -to connect to our redis container on. If you do not expose any ports for the +to connect to our Redis container on. If you do not expose any ports for the image then docker will not be able to establish the link between containers. -Run the redis container +Run the Redis container ----------------------- .. code-block:: bash - - docker run -d -e PASSWORD=docker -name redis redis-2.6 --requirepass docker - -This will run our redis container with the password docker + + sudo docker run -d -e PASSWORD=docker -name redis redis-2.6 --requirepass docker + +This will run our Redis container with the password docker to secure our service. By specifying the ``-name`` flag on run -we will assign the name ``redis`` to this container. If we do not specify a name for +we will assign the name ``redis`` to this container. If we do not specify a name for our container via the ``-name`` flag docker will automatically generate a name for us. We can issue all the commands that you would expect; start, stop, attach, using the name for our container. The name also allows us to link other containers into this one. -Linking redis as a child +Linking Redis as a child ------------------------ -Next we can start a new web application that has a dependency on redis and apply a link -to connect both containers. If you noticed when running our redis server we did not use -the ``-p`` flag to publish the redis port to the host system. Redis exposed port 6379 via the Dockerfile +Next we can start a new web application that has a dependency on Redis and apply a link +to connect both containers. If you noticed when running our Redis server we did not use +the ``-p`` flag to publish the Redis port to the host system. Redis exposed port 6379 via the Dockerfile and this is all we need to establish a link. -Now lets start our web application with a link into redis. +Now let's start our web application with a link into Redis. .. code-block:: bash - - docker run -t -i -link redis:db -name webapp ubuntu bash + + sudo docker run -t -i -link redis:db -name webapp ubuntu bash root@4c01db0b339c:/# env @@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ Now lets start our web application with a link into redis. When we inspect the environment of the linked container we can see a few extra environment variables have been added. When you specified ``-link redis:db`` you are telling docker -to link the container named ``redis`` into this new container with the alias ``db``. +to link the container named ``redis`` into this new container with the alias ``db``. Environment variables are prefixed with the alias so that the parent container can access network and environment information from the containers that are linked into it. @@ -128,5 +133,5 @@ network and environment information from the containers that are linked into it. Accessing the network information along with the environment of the child container allows -us to easily connect to the redis service on the specific ip and port and use the password +us to easily connect to the Redis service on the specific IP and port and use the password specified in the environment.