Akamas is deployed as a set of containerized services running on Docker and managed via Docker Compose. In offine installation mode, the latest version of the Akamas Docker Compose file and all the images required by Docker cannot be downloaded from the AWS ECR repository.
Get in contact with Akamas Customer Services to get the latest versions of the Akamas artifacts to be uploaded to a location of your choice on the dedicated Akamas Server.
Akamas installation artifacts will include:
images.tar.gz: Akamas main images
docker-compose.yml: docker-compose file for Akamas
a binary file named akamas: this is the binary file of the akamas CLI that will be used to verify the installation.
A preliminary step in offline installation mode is to import the shipped Docker images by running the following commands in the same directory where the tar files have been stored:
Notice that this import procedure could take quite some time!
To configure Akamas, the following environment variables are required to be set:
AKAMAS_CUSTOMER: this is the customer name matching the one referenced in the Akamas license.
AKAMAS_BASE_URL: this is the endpoint in the Akamas APIs that will be used to interact with the CLI, typically http://<akamas server dns address>:8000
Environment variables creation is performed by the snippet below:
It is recommended to save these exported variables in your ~/.bashrc file for convenience.
To start Akamas you can now simply navigate into the akamas folder and run a docker-compose command as follows:
Notice that you may get the following error:
This is a documented docker bug (see this link) that can be solved by installing the "pass" package:
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