Set Up SAP Data Hub, Developer Edition 2.4

Running SAP Data Hub, developer edition on your local computer requires:

• at least 2 CPU cores (recommended 4 CPU cores) with X86_64 instruction set

• at least 8 GB of RAM

• at least 10 GB disk space for a running Docker container

• Internet connectivity (temporarily while building the Docker image)

• Docker installed and running (http://www.docker.com)
  Attention: If you use Docker for Windows, make sure that you run Linux and not Windows containers. You can check this via the Docker for Windows context menu. If necessary, switch to Linux containers via the context menu.
  Attention: If you use Docker Toolbox, pay special attention to the sizing of the Linux VM. For details take a look at our FAQ.

Verify that Docker is properly installed and running by opening a terminal window and entering the following.

docker run hello-world

You see an output similar to the following:

Download SAP Data Hub, developer edition and unpack the archive to your disk. You find it via the following link.

https://www.sap.com/developer/trials-downloads/additional-downloads/sap-data-hub-developer-edition-15004.html

Carefully read the README.html as well as the license agreement prior to continuing with the tutorial.

Open and review the Dockerfile with any text editor. For now you do not have to understand the file in detail. If you run behind a proxy, you do have to ensure that the proxy settings for Internet access are maintained correctly.

ENV http_proxy=http://myproxy:8080

ENV https_proxy=http://myproxy:8080

Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you have unpacked the archive (that is the directory which includes the Dockerfile). Build the docker image for SAP Data Hub, developer edition.

docker build --tag datahub .

After 30-60 minutes (depending on the speed of your internet connection) the build completes. Verify that your local Docker registry now includes a new image (called datahub) for SAP Data Hub, developer edition by entering the following.

docker images

You see an output similar to the following:

Create a Docker network by opening a terminal window (or using the already open one). This will later help you to easily connect the container running SAP Data Hub, developer edition (which you will soon start) with other containers. Enter the following command.

docker network create dev-net

Run a Docker container based on image datahub. By publishing the ports 8090, 9225 and 30115 you ensure that you later can access the different user interfaces running inside the Docker container via localhost.

docker run -ti --env VORA_USERNAME=vora --env VORA_PASSWORD=SomeNicePassword19920706 --publish 127.0.0.1:8090:8090 --publish 127.0.0.1:9225:9225 --publish 30115:30115 --name datahub --hostname datahub --network dev-net datahub run --agree-to-sap-license

After a few minutes (during which you can follow what happens inside the container), you see an output (“status loop”) similar to the following. The output refreshes every minute and indicates that all services related to SAP Data Hub, developer edition are running.

Attention: If you press Ctrl-C during the “status loop”, this will stop the running container (see also step 6).

Now that we have our datahub container up and running, we would start a separate container for HDFS.

Open a new command prompt and run the following command :

docker run -ti --publish 127.0.0.1:50070:50070 --name hdfs --hostname hdfs --net dev-net datahub run-hdfs

After the installations are completed, the container would be started. You would be able to see the following output in the command prompt :

You can stop SAP Data Hub, developer edition by using the stop command. After you used the above run command, you need to open a new terminal window to enter the stop command (alternatively you can use Ctrl-C).

docker stop datahub

You can also restart SAP Data Hub, developer edition (without creating a completely new container) by using the start command (this will not open a “status loop”). The -i option ensures that you see the “status loop”.

docker start -i datahub

Attention: When stopping and restarting the Docker container, currently the tables which you have created in SAP Vora get lost. You need to recreate them.

If you like to see what is going on (after you have issued a start command) you can take a look at the logs.

docker logs datahub