tix-time-condenser

This is the tix-time-condenser microservice. The idea behind it is to condense all the reports from the server into the directories of each user and installation.
It also checks the package integrity and coherence by performing a check upon the message, signature and public key provided.

Installation

The tix-time-condenser is currently in CD through Travis and DockerHub. So to install it you just need to download the latest release of this repository container and run the image.

Since this microservice is made using SpringBoot, you can update any configuration variable using environment variables or passing them to the image at runtime.

It is important to add a volume to the container, since the image may be fragile, or there might be more than one image, but the reports must always be kept safe for processing.

Configurations

The tix-time-condenser has four SpringBoot Profiles. dev or default, test, staging and production. While they are self explanatory, you should bare in mind that

• dev or default are for development purposes only
• test is only intended for the CI environment
• staging is to deploy the microservice in an unestable environment
• production is to deploy the microservice in the stable environment

Both staging and production have almost no difference whatsoever in the performance department. The only difference is in the queue name where the new packets are received.

How to run it

If you are in a dev environment, you can simply use the gradle script by doing:

$> ./gradlew bootRun

If you are in a deployment environment or simply want to run the container, you can must follow these steps:

$> docker volume create --name ReportsVolume
$> docker run --net="host" -v ReportsVolume:/tmp/reports -dit tixmeasurements/tix-time-condenser:latest

In the first step we create a volume that will be used by our container and the tix-time-processor's. On the second step we run our container with:

• The host interface so we can attach to the RabbitMQ service
• The name tix_time_condenser to be able to find it quicker when doing docker ps or any other docker management command
• The -v flag with our recently created volume
• The -d flag to detach it and run it as a daemon

Since the version 0.2.0, the tix-time-condenser uses Basic Auth to authenticate with the API. The default values for the tix-condenser.api.user and the tix-condenser.api.password parameters are admin and admin, respectively. The values in the Docker version for production and staging are left blank on purpose. This will end up crashing the app unless you pass the parameters by environment variables arguments to in the docker run command.