With the change to Docker, Docker is changing its license going forward with Docker Desktop as noted in their license and blog. Much like a former colleague of mine’s article YADPBP: Yet Another Docker to Podman Blog Post, I have entered into the Docker Desktop migration.
I’ve tried minikube, microk8s, podman, Lima-vm and Rancher Desktop. Many of these solutions run a single container, such as multipass. In fact, I tried using Multipass with Podman installed inside of the multipass vm. I found the networking and forwarding needs while testing multiple containers to a local dev environment was a pain. I spent a few days working with minikube, microk9s, podman and ended up on Racher Desktop.
Rancher Desktop has flavors for Mac and Linux (I don’t run Windows as a base OS anymore). I downloaded one of the tech preview releases from GitHub and installed. It’s fairly simple, and they have a straight-forward readme. One trick, be sure to install / setup nerdctl.
nerdctl is a Docker-compatible commandline replacement and integrate seamlessly with Rancher Desktop.
~/$ nerdctl run -p 9443:9443 --name fhir -e BOOTSTRAP_DB=true ibmcom/ibm-fhir-server
docker.io/ibmcom/ibm-fhir-server:latest: resolved |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
manifest-sha256:41f6894fa546899e02e4a8d2370bb6910eb72ed77ec58ae06c3de5e12f3ebb1c: done |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
config-sha256:3c912cc1a5b7c69ae15c9b969ae0085839b926e825b6555a28518458f4bd4935: done |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|
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elapsed: 94.3s total: 696.1 (7.4 MiB/s)
bootstrap.sh - [INFO]: 2021-12-07_19:42:09 - Current directory: /opt/ibm-fhir-server
bootstrap.sh - [INFO]: 2021-12-07_19:42:09 - Performing Derby database bootstrapping
2021-12-07 19:42:11.348 00000001 INFO .common.JdbcConnectionProvider Opening connection to database: jdbc:derby:/output/derby/fhirDB;create=true
2021-12-07 19:42:13.138 00000001 WARNING ls.pool.PoolConnectionProvider Get connection took 1.791 seconds
2021-12-07 19:42:13.382 00000001 INFO m.fhir.schema.app.LeaseManager Requesting update lease for schema 'APP' [attempt 1]
When you see ready to run a smarter planet, the server is started.
[12/7/21, 19:45:00:437 UTC] 00000027 FeatureManage A CWWKF0011I: The defaultServer server is ready to run a smarter planet. The defaultServer server started in 20.229 seconds.
When running the $healthcheck, you see:
curl -u fhiruser:change-password https://localhost:9443/fhir-server/api/v4/\$healthcheck -k -H "Prefer: return=OperationOutcome"
{"resourceType":"OperationOutcome","issue":[{"severity":"information","code":"informational","details":{"text":"All OK"}}]}
Racher Desktop is up… time to run with it…