Use the Container Image for PAS for OpenEdge 12.7 & 12.2.x with a Sample Application

Requirements:

• Docker environment
• Docker Compose
• A valid progress.cfg file
• OpenEdge 12.7 & 12.2.x Environment
• Scripts to deploy Progress Application Server for OpenEdge Container. (Attached)

Note: For the deployment, we are using service port 8811(sample-app), 9200(elasticsearch), 5601(kibana) and 8080(web-ui). These ports should be available.

See FAQ wiki for additional info: https://community.progress.com/s/question/0D54Q00007pHAYgSAO/docker-container-for-pasoe-faq

Use the Container Image

1. Start a database server if you don't have a running database server. Below is an example

• Create a copy of the sports2000 database and start the database server (broker)
  • prodb sports sports2000
  • proserve sports -S <DB_PORT>

2. Build the Sports sample app:

• cd Sports
• For connecting to the database, update the ./conf/startup.pf file with the below content and substituting the required field.
  • -db sports -H <IP_ADDRESS_OF_DB_HOST> -S <DB_PORT>
• In an openedge environment, run the below command
  • ant package
  • Note: A Sports.zip file is generated in ./output/package-output
• Change the working directory to the parent to follow further steps
  • cd ..

3. Start the Elasticsearch, Kibana and web-ui service

• Update the value for serviceURI in webui/grid.js to point to your Docker host.
• Increase virtual memory settings to run Elasticsearch:
  • sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
  • For additional info: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/vm-max-map-count.html
• Start the services
  • docker-compose up -d
• Check the status of Elasticsearch via a web browser. Elasticsearch may take some time to start.
  • http://<docker-host-machine>:9200
• Check the Elasticsearch starts:
  • docker-compose logs -f elasticsearch

4. Deploy the sample app in PASOE

• Download the PASOE image zip from Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) and unzip it to a folder say pasoe-sample-app. For more details, refer https://docs.progress.com/bundle/pas-for-openedge-docker/
• Change the directory
  • cd pasoe-sample-app
• Copy the Sports.zip generated from Step 2 to ./deploy/ablapps
  • cp ../Sports/output/package-output/Sports.zip ./deploy/ablapps/
• Copy the config.properties from sample app to ./deploy/config.properties
  • cp ../config.properties ./deploy/config.properties
• Update the value for HOST in ../fluentbit/conf/fluent-bit-output.conf to point to your Elasticsearch host.
• Copy the Fluent Bit config from sample app to push the logs to Elasticsearch
  • cp ../fluentbit/conf/fluent-bit-output.conf ./deploy/conf/logging/
• Copy the license file progress.cfg to ./deploy/license
• If you want to change the database during deployment, you can do this by updating the ./deploy/conf/runtime.properties with the below content and substituting the required field. If localhost is used in Step 2 for connecting to the database, please update the ./deploy/conf/runtime.properties to point to the IP_ADDRESS_OF_DB_HOST.
  • Sports.DB.CONNECTION.PARAMS=-db sports -H <IP_ADDRESS_OF_DB_HOST> -S <DB_PORT>
• Deploy the sample app
  • ant -f ./deploy/build.xml deploy

5. Access the PAS for OpenEdge instance via a web browser:

• https://<docker-host-machine>:8811/
• https://<docker-host-machine>:8811/Sports/
• https://<docker-host-machine>:8811/Sports/static/SportsService.json
• https://<docker-host-machine>:8811/Sports/rest/SportsService/Customer
• Note: By default, the PAS for OpenEdge instance will use HTTPS with a test certificate. You will need to accept access with this certificate.

6. Access the web-ui service via a web browser:

• http://<docker-host-machine>:8080

7. Access Elasticsearch to check on available logs

• http://<docker-host-machine>:9200/_cat/indices

8. Access Kibana

• http://<docker-host-machine>:5601
• Notes:
  • Select Management/Index Management to see the indices in Elasticsearch.A index named as pasoe-container-logs should be present.
• Select Management/Index Pattern to create an index for Kibana:
  • Create index patterns as 'pasoe_container*'
    • Specify @timestamp to filter data by time
• Select Discover to see pasoe logs. You can search logs for logtype:
  • pasoe_agent_log, pasoe_application_log, pasoe_localhost_log, pasoe_localhost_access_log, start_server_log and etc.

9. Stop the running services

• Stop Elasticsearch, Kibana, and web-ui
  • docker-compose -f ../docker-compose.yaml down
• Stop deployed sample app
  • ant -f ./deploy/build.xml undeploy

NOTE: Update OE version in the build.xml and config.properties file in the deployScripts.zip.(12.2.17, 12.7.0 etc.)