- Hazelcast Quick Start
- Hazelcast Hello World
- Hazelcast Enterprise Quick Start
- Hazelcast Docker Repositories
- Hazelcast Defined Environment Variables
- Using Custom Hazelcast Configuration File
- Extending Hazelcast Base Image
- Stopping a Hazelcast Member
- Management Center
- Hazelcast Kubernetes
- Hazelcast Openshift
- Hazelcast Docker Files
You can launch Hazelcast Docker Container by running the following command. You can find the full list of Hazelcast versions to replace $HAZELCAST_VERSION at Official Hazelcast Docker Hub.
$ docker run hazelcast/hazelcast:$HAZELCAST_VERSION
This command will pull Hazelcast Docker image and run a new Hazelcast Instance.
For the simplest end-to-end scenario, you can create a Hazelcast cluster with two Docker containers and access it from the client application.
$ docker run -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dhazelcast.local.publicAddress=<host_ip>:5701" -p 5701:5701 hazelcast/hazelcast
$ docker run -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dhazelcast.local.publicAddress=<host_ip>:5702" -p 5702:5701 hazelcast/hazelcast
Note that:
- each container must publish the
5701
port under a different host machine port (5701
and5702
in the example) <host_ip>
needs to be the host machine address that will be used for the Hazelcast communication
After setting up the cluster, you can start the client application to check it works correctly.
You can launch Hazelcast Enterprise Docker Container by running the following command. You can find the full list of Hazelcast Enterprise versions to replace $HAZELCAST_VERSION at Official Hazelcast Docker Hub.
Please request trial license here or contact sales@hazelcast.com.
$ docker run -e HZ_LICENSE_KEY=<your_license_key> hazelcast/hazelcast-enterprise:$HAZELCAST_VERSION
To run two Hazelcast nodes with Management Center, use the following commands.
$ docker run -p 8080:8080 hazelcast/management-center
$ docker run -p 5701:5701 -e HZ_LICENSE_KEY=<your_license_key> -e MANCENTER_URL="http://<host_ip>:8080/hazelcast-mancenter" -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dhazelcast.local.publicAddress=<host_ip>:5701" hazelcast/hazelcast-enterprise
$ docker run -p 5702:5701 -e HZ_LICENSE_KEY=<your_license_key> -e MANCENTER_URL="http://<host_ip>:8080/hazelcast-mancenter" -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dhazelcast.local.publicAddress=<host_ip>:5702" hazelcast/hazelcast-enterprise
Note that the MANCENTER_URL
environment variable defines the address of the Management Center application. In this case, it is available at http://<host_ip>:8080/hazelcast-mancenter
.
Now, if you open a browser at http://localhost:8080/hazelcast-mancenter, you should see your cluster with 2 nodes. You can start the client and observe in Management Center that the map data has been added.
Read more about the Management Center image here.
You can find all Hazelcast Docker Images on Docker Store Hazelcast Page. https://store.docker.com/profiles/hazelcast
N.B. Hazelcast Docker Images (Enterprise Edition and Open Source) are based on Alpine Linux.
You can give environment variables to the Hazelcast member within your Docker command. Currently, we support the variables MIN_HEAP_SIZE
and MAX_HEAP_SIZE
inside our start script. An example command is as follows:
$ docker run -e MIN_HEAP_SIZE="1g" hazelcast/hazelcast
As shown below, you can use JAVA_OPTS
environment variable if you need to pass multiple VM arguments to your Hazelcast member.
$ docker run -e JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512M -Xmx1024M" hazelcast/hazelcast
The license key for Hazelcast Enterprise can be defined using the HZ_LICENSE_KEY
variable
$ docker run -e HZ_LICENSE_KEY=<your_license_key> hazelcast/hazelcast-enterprise
The address to the Management Center application can be defined using the MANCENTER_URL
variable.
$ docker run -e MANCENTER_URL=<mancenter_url> hazelcast/hazelcast-enterprise
If you need to configure with your own hazelcast.xml
or jar files with your own domain classes, you need to mount the folder that has those files. Also, while running the Docker image, you need to pass the hazelcast.xml
file path to hazelcast.config
in JAVA_OPTS
parameter. Please see the following example:
$ docker run -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dhazelcast.config=/opt/hazelcast/config_ext/hazelcast.xml" -v PATH_TO_LOCAL_CONFIG_FOLDER:/opt/hazelcast/config_ext hazelcast/hazelcast
You can use Hazelcast Docker Image to start a new Hazelcast member with default configuration. If you'd like to customize your Hazelcast member, you can extend the Hazelcast base image, provide your own configuration file and customize your initialization process. In order to do that, you need to create a new Dockerfile
and build it with docker build
command.
In the Dockerfile
example below, we are creating a new image based on the Hazelcast image and adding our own configuration file from our host to the container, which is going to be used with Hazelcast when the container runs.
FROM hazelcast/hazelcast:$HAZELCAST_VERSION
# Adding custom hazelcast.xml
ADD hazelcast.xml ${HZ_HOME}
ENV JAVA_OPTS -Dhazelcast.config=${HZ_HOME}/hazelcast.xml
After creating the Dockerfile
you need to build it by running the command below:
$ docker build .
Now you can run your own container with its ID or tag (if you provided -t
option while building the image) using the docker run
command.
You can stop
the member using the docker command: docker stop <containerid>
.
By default, Hazelcast is configured to TERMINATE
on receiving the SIGTERM signal from Docker, which means that a container stops quickly, but the cluster's data safety relies on the backup stored by other Hazelcast members.
The other option is to use the GRACEFUL
shutdown, which triggers the partition migration before shutting down the Hazelcast member. Note that it may take some time depending on your data size. To use that approach, configure the following properties:
- Add
hazelcast.shutdownhook.policy=GRACEFUL
to yourJAVA_OPTS
environment variable - Add
hazelcast.graceful.shutdown.max.wait=<seconds>
to yourJAVA_OPTS
environment variable- Default value is 600 seconds
- Stop the container using
docker stop --time <seconds>
- It defines how much time Docker waits before sending SIGKILL
- Default value is 10 seconds
- Value should be greater or equal
hazelcast.graceful.shutdown.max.wait
- Alternatively, you can configure the Docker timeout upfront by
docker run --stop-timeout <seconds>
Please see Management Center Repository for Dockerfile definitions and have a look at available images on Docker Hub page.
Hazelcast maintains two Docker Images for Kubernetes Environment. Below are the links to their README files. You can also find Docker Images on Docker Hub page.
please see Hazelcast Openshift Repository for Dockerfile definitions and have a look available images on Docker Hub page.
You can find Docker files by going to corresponding hazelcast-docker
repo tag.
See the full list here: https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-docker/releases