Deploy with Docker

The prerequisite to run and deploy ATON + THOTH using Docker is to have Docker installed, and to have downloaded/cloned the THOTH repository locally.

Quick run

The super-quick way to deploy THOTH framework using Docker in a single command is:

docker compose up --build

This will build, run and deploy ATON framework with THOTH integrated as a web-app on local port 8088 using a basic configuration, after a fresh install of the framework (e.g. after first clone from github). Note that this does not require downloading or deploying ATON first, as this is handled by the Dockerfile.

Build a Docker image of THOTH

This step allows you to build a docker image which contains ATON + THOTH using the Dockerfile inside the main THOTH folder:

sudo docker build -t thoth

This process creates a docker image named thoth. This will automatically create the image starting from the current location, install ATON and the relevant dependencies and paste the THOTH web app in the appropriate folder.

Basic deploy

Once we built our docker image, we can create and run a new container from thoth image by typing:

sudo docker run --rm thoth -dp 8080:8080 thoth

This will create a container using the image thoth and expose ATON's service in port 8080. Notice that when the container will be stopped, all changes will be lost (e.g. new scenes, new users, etc…), since by default all files created inside a container are stored on a writable container layer.

Note that you can modify the Dockerfile according to the needs of your project/service. For instructions on that refer to the respective ATON documentation on Docker deployment