Running with Docker Compose

Start here once you have SSH access and sudo privileges for a server or VM.

Note

Docker server installation is only supported on Linux distributions

Container Images

A DIVE Web deployment consists of 2 main services.

kitware/viame-web - the web server
kitware/viame-worker - the queue worker

In addition, a database (MongoDB) and a queue service (RabbitMQ) are required.

Install dependencies

SSH into the target server and install these system dependencies.

Tip

You can skip this section if you used Ansible to configure your server, as it already installed all necessary dependencies.

Install NVIDIA Driver (version specified in VIAME)
- sudo ubuntu-drivers install usually works.
Install docker version 19.03+ guide
Install docker-compose version 1.28.0+ guide
Install nvidia-container-toolkit

Basic deployment

Clone this repository and configure options in .env .

# Clone this repository
git clonehttps://github.com/DigitalSlideArchive/dive-dsa /opt/dive

# Change to correct directory
cd /opt/dive

# Initiate the .env file
cp .env.default .env

# Edit the .env file
# See configuration options below and inline comments
nano .env

# Pull pre-built images
docker-compose pull

# Bring the services up
# Make sure to specify docker-compose.yml unless you intend to mount code for development
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

VIAME server will be running at http://localhost:8010/dive. You should see a page that looks like this. The default username and password is admin:letmein.

Login Page

Production deployment

If you have a server with a public-facing IP address and a domain name that points to it, you should be able to use our production deployment configuration. This is the way we deploy viame.kitware.com.

containrrr/watchtower updates the running containers on a schedule using automated image builds from docker hub (above).
linuxserver/duplicati is included to schedule nightly backups, but must be manually configured.

You should scale the girder web server up to an appropriate number. This stack will automatically load-balance across however many instances you bring up.

# Continuing from above, modify .env again to include the production variables
nano .env

# pull extra containers
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml pull

# scale the web service up
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d --scale girder=4

Splitting services

It's possible to split your web server and task runner between multiple nodes. This may be useful if you want to run DIVE Web without a GPU or if you want to save money by keeping your GPU instance stopped when not in use. You could also increase parallel task capacity by running task runners on multiple nodes.

Make two cloud VM instances, one with NVIDIA drivers and container toolkit, and one without.
Clone the dive repository on both, and set up .env on both with the same configuration.
Be sure that WORKER_API_URL and CELERY_BROKER_URL in particular are uncommented and set to the IP or domain name of your web server. This is how the worker will talk to the web server, so the web server must be network accessible from the worker.

## On the web server
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d girder rabbit

## On the GPU server(s)
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d --no-deps girder_worker_default

In order to run any jobs (video transcoding) the worker server will need to be running.

Configuration Reference

Server branding config

You can configure the brand and messaging that appears in various places in the DIVE Web UI using the config API.

Open the swagger page at /api/v1
PUT /dive_configuration/brand_data where the body is a JSON object from the template below. If you do not want to set a value and use the default, omit the key and value from the config body.

{
  // A JSON Vuetify theme configuration object.
  // https://vuetify.cn/en/customization/theme/#customizing
  "vuetify": {},

  // A URL to a favicon
  "favicon": "",

  // A URL to an image that will be shown as the main logo
  "logo": "",

  // Used in several places, including the main toolbar
  "name": "VIAME",

  // Message that appears on the login screen
  "loginMessage": "",

  // Alert messages are typically used to tell users about maintenance, outages, etc.
  "alertMessage": "",
}

Web Server config

This image contains both the backend and client.

Variable	Default	Description
GIRDER_MONGO_URI	`mongodb://mongo:27017/girder`	a mongodb connection string
GIRDER_ADMIN_USER	`admin`	admin username
GIRDER_ADMIN_PASS	`letmein`	admin password
CELERY_BROKER_URL	`amqp://guest:guest@default/`	rabbitmq connection string
WORKER_API_URL	`http://girder:8080/api/v1`	Address for workers to reach web server

There is additional configuration for the RabbitMQ Management plugin. It only matters if you intend to allow individual users to configure private job runners in standalone mode, and can otherwise be ignored.

Variable	Default	Description
RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT_USERNAME	`guest`	Management API username
RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT_PASSWORD	`guest`	Management API password
RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT_VHOST	`default`	Virtual host should match `CELERY_BROKER_URL`
RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT_URL	`http://rabbit:15672/`	Management API Url

You can also pass girder configuration and celery configuration.

Worker config

This image contains a celery worker to run transcoding jobs.

Note: Either a broker url or DIVE credentials must be supplied.

Variable	Default	Description
WORKER_WATCHING_QUEUES	null	one of `celery`. Ignored in standalone mode.
WORKER_CONCURRENCY	`# of CPU cores`	max concurrnet jobs. Lower this if you run training
WORKER_GPU_UUID	null	leave empty to use all GPUs. Specify UUID to use specific device
CELERY_BROKER_URL	`amqp://guest:guest@default/`	rabbitmq connection string. Ignored in standalone mode.
KWIVER_DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL	`warn`	kwiver log level
DIVE_USERNAME	null	Username to start private queue processor. Providing this enables standalone mode.
DIVE_PASSWORD	null	Password for private queue processor. Providing this enables standalone mode.
DIVE_API_URL	`https://viame.kitware.com/api/v1`	Remote URL to authenticate against

You can also pass regular celery configuration variables.