Requirements

To run the presented infrastructure with full functionality you need to have the following programs installed:

Docker is an open platform for easy application deployment in well-defined environments for developers and operators. http://docs.docker.com/linux/step_one/

Python 2.7

Some key Python libraries/tools utilized are:

Docker Compose (implying docker-py)
PyYAML

pip allows you to get required Python dependencies installed and/or updated with the pip install -Ur requirements.txt one-liner.

git

A free and open source distributed version control system.

Complete requirements installation

If you are lazy and just want to get things going, you can simply copy and paste the following commands to a ubuntu or debian Linux system. If you’d like to know more about, what the things do, better keep reading.

Creat a new directory and change into it. Just copy the following commands and paste them into the terminal:

sudo apt-get update && \
apt-get -y install docker.io && \
curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.4.2/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose && \
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose && \
apt-get -y install python-pip && \
git clone https://github.com/Dockerizing/dockerizing-bootstrap && \
cd dockerizing-bootstrap && \
sudo pip install -Ur requirements.txt

Install Docker

Docker supports an installation on many systems. Exemplarily you can find the installation instructions for Debian Jessie 8.0 (64-bit) on this point. If you use another system, please see the Docker documentation.

The docker.io package can be found in the jessie-backports repository. Make sure you enabled this Repository. To enable jessie-backports please see the Debian Backports Instructions.

Open a terminal and execute the following commands (you don’t need to copy the commends following the #):

$ sudo apt-get update               # Updates the package list
$ sudo apt-get install docker.io    # Install Docker
$ sudo docker run --rm hello-world  # Verify docker works using a 'hello-world' Docker image and running it

Install Docker Compose

To install Docker Compose, an installation of Docker (see the point above) is required. Make sure that your /usr/local/bin directory is writable.

Get Docker Compose according to the instructions at: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases and verify the Compose installation

$ docker-compose --version

Install Python

Install the latest Python package

$ apt-get install python

The Python package repository pip is already included by default in the following Python versions:

Python 2.7.9 and later versions on the python 2 series
Python 3.4 and later versions

Install dependencies using pip

On other Versions you have to install pip through the following terminal commands:

$ sudo python get-pip.py

You can also use the OS Package Manager (for example on Debian) to install pip

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip       # for python 2
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip      # for python 3