wait-for-weave

A small binary that waits for a weave network to be connected before running the cli arguments as a command.

Useful when overriding a docker container entrypoint such that the container will wait for the weave network to be ready before running.

usage

wait-for-weave is not designed to be run as a stand alone container.

It is intended to have it's volumes mounted onto another container using --volumes-from.

First - run the wait-for-weave container ensuring you provide a --name parameter and a WAIT_FOR_WEAVE_QUIT=yes environment variable.

$ docker run --name weavewait \
  -e "WAIT_FOR_WEAVE_QUIT=yes" \
  binocarlos/wait-for-weave

The WAIT_FOR_WEAVE_QUIT variable enables us to run the binary but without waiting - otherwise docker complains that we have no given it a command to run.

Then - you can run another container with a --volumes-from=weavewait option.

This enables you change the --entrypoint to /home/weavewait/wait-for-weave.

Pass the original entrypoint as arguments and it will run only once the weave network is up and running:

$ docker run \
    --volumes-from=weavewait \
    --entrypoint="/home/weavewait/wait-for-weave" \
    binocarlos/database-backup /bin/backup.sh --server 10.255.0.1

In the example above - the containers entrypoint is /bin/backup.sh and the original docker command without wait-for-weave was:

$ docker run binocarlos/database-backup --server 10.255.0.1

The job of identifying and modifying the container entrypoint and adding the --volumes-from flag is not in the scope of this project. This is much better handled by a docker proxy or similar tool.

exit code

If the ethwe interface is not found within 10 seconds then wait-for-weave will NOT execute the entrypoint, will print a message to stderr and exit with a non-zero exit code.

example usage

The command I ran without weave (where wait-for-weave lived in /srv/projects):

$ docker run \
  -v /srv/projects/wait-for-weave/stage/wait-for-weave:/bin/wait-for-weave \
  --entrypoint="/bin/wait-for-weave" \
  ubuntu bash -c "while true; do echo hello && sleep 1; done"

This printed interface ethwe not found after 10 seconds

The command I ran with weave:

$ sudo weave run 10.255.0.14/8 \
  -v /srv/projects/wait-for-weave/stage/wait-for-weave:/bin/wait-for-weave \
  --entrypoint="/bin/wait-for-weave" \
  ubuntu bash -c "while true; do echo hello && sleep 1; done"

This printed the container id and when I docker logs $ID it was printing hello lots of times (i.e. it found ethwe and ran the entrypoint)

licence

Copyright 2015 Kai Davenport & Contributors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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