Foxx-installer

Foxx-installer is a standalone utility to install/upgrade/replace Arangodb Foxx applications. It is intended to be used within a Docker container such that Foxx apps can be deployed as docker container.

Usage

foxx-installer install \
    --database=<dbname> \
    --server-url<arangodburl> \
    --app-path=<foxxapppath> \
    --mountpoint=/yourapp
    [--replace]

Environment variables

The following environment variable can be used instead of command line arguments.

• FI_DATABASE - Replaces --database
• FI_SERVER_URL - Replaces --server-url
• FI_APP_PATH - Replaces --app-path
• FI_MOUNTPOINT - Replaces --mountpoint
• FI_REPLACE - Replaces --replace (if set to "1")

Docker usage

This is a sample Dockerfile that uses foxx-installer to install a app location in ./app/.

FROM pulcy/foxx-installer

COPY ./app/ /app/

ENV FI_APP_PATH="/app/"
ENV FI_MOUNTPOINT="/myapp"

CMD ["install", "--database=mydb", "--server-url=http://arangodb.local:8529"]

Build the docker image and run it with a simple docker run yourimagename.