Welcome to the FAQ. Here you will find a list of common questions and answers along with CLI issues you may face.
Yes, though Docker Desktop may require special settings to access user folders in the host system. In order to ensure Docker has access to those folders, please follow the instructions in the page Appsody and Docker Desktop on Windows 10.
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This was an issue that was faced in an older version of the software. It occurred when the Appsody CLI and the Appsody project were located on different disk volumes. If you are experiencing this problem, navigate to our GitHub page and ensure you are operating on the latest version. If you would like more information on this issue, please click here.
Sometimes, when you run appsody deploy, you may see a message that fails to provide the URL of the deployed Knative service. Although the Knative URL is not displaying, Appsody should have still been deployed successfully. This is a timing issue where kubectl apply finishes executing before all resources have been made available.
Versions of Appsody at 0.2.5 and older do not support going through a HTTP proxy. However, newer versions do: Before launching Appsody, you just need to set the HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY environment variable.
When you encounter the following error
[Error] Could not read indices: Failed to get repository index: 404 Not Found response trying to download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appsody/stacks/master/index.yaml Go to your home directory and open the repository.yaml using an editor of your choice.
On macOS/Linux
cd ~/.appsody/repository/ On Windows
cd %HOMEPATH%/.appsody/repository/ Change the URL for the incubator repository to reference the latest incubator index, which is:
https://github.com/appsody/stacks/releases/latest/download/incubator-index.yaml Save your changes and try running your command again.
Although the installation guide states that a working internet connection is required, you can use the Appsody CLI offline for some stacks. Other stacks, such as the nodejs stacks, need to download package dependencies so cannot can be used offline.
Here is a list of commands that are part of the standard Appsody flow of work, with the steps to follow to enable working offline:
appsody list/repo list: Download the Appsody index files that you are using, for example incubator or experimental and add them to your local repository, by using:
appsody repo add <repo-name> <path-to-downloaded-index> appsody init: Initialize an Appsody project for your chosen stack, with appsody init, which pulls down the latest images from DockerHub. These images are then cached locally and can be used without an internet connection.
appsody run/test/debug: To use images that are stored in the local cache, rather than pull them from Dockerhub, set the environment variable:
export APPSODY_PULL_POLICY=IFNOTPRESENT If you encounter errors, running appsody run or appsody deploy similar to:
[Container] docker: Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint hello-dev (c7cd774c8fab853f31f94efee4e639189cb6b77de7501a4c0bc669fbb7defe60): Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:9443: bind: address already in use. [Error] Error in 'appsody run': exit status 125 You might find that embedded Kubernetes on Docker Docktop on macOS is using port 9443. You can query the open TCP ports on macOS.
The workaround is to append -p 9444:9443 to the Appsody command so that the port inside the container is 9443 but access to the application (the publicly exposed port), is through 9444.
Alternatively you can append -P to your Appsody command, which automatically assigns a free port to the process.
Yes. Although if you see errors similar to the following, it indicates that the Docker daemon, although it runs as root, might not be able to access the folders that are mounted from the host file system:
Container] [Warning] Failed to add directory to recursive watch list: /project/user-appopen /project/user-app: permission denied npm ERR! path /project/user-app/package.json [Container] npm ERR! Code EACCES [Container] npm ERR! errno -13 [Container] npm ERR! syscall open [Container] npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/project/user-app/package.json' To check whether SELinux is enabled and enforcing its policies, you can run sestatus. The output of the command includes the Current Mode of SELinux. If it is set to enforcing, and you see errors similar to those shown, you might need to change your SELinux configuration.
You can exempt the folders that are mounted by the stacks that you are using, with the following command:
chcon -Rt svirt_sandbox_file_t </path/to/volume> You might need to run this command multiple times to whitelist different paths, depending on your setup, and on the mount points of the specific stack you are using.
Appsody lists Docker as a prerequisite for creating and running applications and stacks. However, certain Appsody operations like building an application, or packaging a stack can also be done with Buildah. Using Buildah is useful in environments where Docker is not available, for example, in Tekton pipelines or other Kubernetes environments. To use Buildah with Appsody, instead of Docker, add the --buildah flag to the following Appsody commands:
appsody stack package appsody extract appsody build appsody deploy For convenience, there is also a container image appsody-buildah that includes the current version of the Appsody CLI and the version of buildah that is used by Appsody. If you would like to modify this image to fit your own purposes, you can find the Dockerfile in the appsody-buildah repo
To work with Kubernetes locally, it is recommended that you enable Kubernetes in Docker for Desktop. To do that, first run the Docker app that starts Docker and adds the Docker icon to the menu bar.
Select the Docker icon in the menu bar, click 'Preferences', and select the 'Kubernetes' tab. Select the 'Enable Kubernetes' checkbox and click 'Apply'.
Click 'Install' on the dialog box that is entitled, “Install the Kubernetes Cluster now?” to start the installation. When it completes, Kubernetes is installed along with the kubectl tool that Appsody uses to deploy your applications.
Next, ensure that Kubernetes has enough resources to run your apps by selecting the Docker icon in the menu bar, click 'Preferences' and select the 'Advanced' tab. Use the sliders to ensure that you have 6 CPUs and 8.0 GB of memory that is assigned to Kubernetes and click 'Apply & Restart'.
Now use the Installing Knative guide to install Knative Serving in your Docker for Desktop based Kubernetes cluster.
Appsody stacks can specify where and how the dependencies of the user's application are managed. Typically, stacks use the APPSODY_DEPS environment variable to specify a list of locations where the application's dependencies are going to be stored within the Appsody container.
Appsody CLI creates Docker volumes for these locations and reuses the same volumes every time the user's project is executed by Appsody. This provides a caching mechanism and improves performance.
These project specific volumes are listed within the $HOME/.appsody/project.yaml file. It contains an entry for every project that is initialized on the local system. An example project.yaml file follows:
projects: - id: "20200330103455.86854200" path: /Users/myuser/projects/test-nodejs volumes: - name: appsody-test-nodejs-20200330114100.38851500 path: /project/user-app/node_modules - name: appsody-test-nodejs-20200330114100.38854000 path: /project/tests - id: "20200330120542.32567800" path: /Users/myuser/projects/myproject volumes: - name: appsody-myproject-20200330121802.54124700 path: /project/user-app/.build The example file contains information about two projects test-nodejs and myproject. The test-nodejs project has two Docker volumes that are associated with it appsody-test-nodejs-20200330114100.38851500 and appsody-test-nodejs-20200330114100.38854000. The volumes are mounted at the following container paths /project/user-app/node_modules and /project/tests. The myproject project has one volume that is associated with it appsody-myproject-20200330121802.54124700 that is mounted at /project/user-app/.build
The project.yaml file is validated when a new Appsody project is initialized. For projects that meet any of the following categories:
The project entry is removed from the project.yaml file and the associated volumes are deleted. This validation ensures that volumes exist only for current projects and that volumes are not reused between different projects of the same name.
The Appsody Operator is used to monitor resources of kind AppsodyApplication and can be installed using the appsody operator install command. However, there might be cases where this command fails due to permissions problems in the cluster.
If you are working within a shared cluster, certain commands might be restricted. For example, the Appsody CLI runs kubectl get pods --all-namespaces as part of the appsody operator install command. You can use the --no-operator-check flag and run appsody operator install --no-operator-check to bypass some of these restrictions. However, this might not be enough to install the operator in clusters with stricter permissions. In this case, contact your cluster administrator.
Currently, Appsody supports using a local Docker daemon only. If you use the Minikube Docker daemon, Appsody commands will not work as expected.