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How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

venur — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:20:31 GMT

my alfresco and share containers running by default in GMT. Which is causing some timestamp specific custom jobs run at wrong timings that required time.

how can i make it running in ET zone?

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

kaynezhang — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 03:41:03 GMT

you can set the time zone in your host machine then you can map your local time to the container through volume mapping. Like this,

 volumes: 
   - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

venur — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:57:43 GMT

Tx @kaynezhang , I tried adding the instructions in docker compose for acs service. And when i launching containers, acs is failing without any trace of errors. in docker ps result i am not seeing acs. Not seeing any log why failing. when i am removing the instructions, it is starting fine.

I try on our ubuntu dev server. I will update results

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

kaynezhang — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 02:39:44 GMT

There maybe something wrong with your docker compose file ,please paste it here

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

venur — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:54:39 GMT

hi @kaynezhang

So when tried on ubuntu server it worked but not working on developer system. We are using docker desktop on developer system.

find the compose file :

services:
    alfresco:
        build:
          dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
          context: ./configs-to-override/alfresco
        mem_limit: 8g
        environment:
            JAVA_OPTS: "
                -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
                -Ddb.username=alfresco
                -Ddb.password=alfresco
                -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://postgres:5432/alfresco
                -Dsolr.host=solr6
                -Dsolr.port=8983
                -Dsolr.secureComms=none
                -Dsolr.base.url=/solr
                -Dindex.subsystem.name=solr6
                -Dshare.host=127.0.0.1
                -Dshare.port=7080
                -Dalfresco.host=localhost
                -Dalfresco.port=7080
                -Daos.baseUrlOverwrite=http://localhost:7080/alfresco/aos
                -Dmessaging.broker.url=\"failover:(nio://activemq:61616)?timeout=3000&jms.useCompression=true\"
                -Ddeployment.method=DOCKER_COMPOSE
                -DlocalTransform.core-aio.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dalfresco-pdf-renderer.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Djodconverter.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dimg.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dtika.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dtransform.misc.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dcsrf.filter.enabled=false
                -Xms8g -Xmx8g
                "
	 volumes:
	    - ./alfresco/alf_data:/usr/local/tomcat/alf_data
            - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime

    transform-core-aio:
        image: alfresco/alfresco-transform-core-aio:2.3.4
        mem_limit: 1536m
        environment:
            JAVA_OPTS: " -Xms256m -Xmx1536m"
        ports:
            - 8090:8090

    share:
        build:
          dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
          context: ./configs-to-override/share
        mem_limit: 2g
        environment:
            REPO_HOST: "alfresco"
            REPO_PORT: "7080"
            JAVA_OPTS: "
                -Xms2g
                -Xmx2g
                -Dalfresco.host=localhost
                -Dalfresco.port=7080
                -Dalfresco.context=alfresco
                -Dalfresco.protocol=http
                "

    postgres:
        image: postgres:11.7
        mem_limit: 1g
        environment:
            - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=alfresco
            - POSTGRES_USER=alfresco
            - POSTGRES_DB=alfresco
        command: postgres -c max_connections=300 -c log_min_messages=LOG
        ports:
            - 5432:5432
	volumes:
            - ./postgres/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

    solr6:
        image: alfresco/alfresco-search-services:1.4.2.2
        mem_limit: 2g
        environment:
            #Solr needs to know how to register itself with Alfresco
            - SOLR_ALFRESCO_HOST=alfresco
            - SOLR_ALFRESCO_PORT=7080
            #Alfresco needs to know how to call solr
            - SOLR_SOLR_HOST=solr6
            - SOLR_SOLR_PORT=8983
            #Create the default alfresco and archive cores
            - SOLR_CREATE_ALFRESCO_DEFAULTS=alfresco,archive
            #HTTP by default
            - ALFRESCO_SECURE_COMMS=none
            - "SOLR_JAVA_MEM=-Xms2g -Xmx2g"
        ports:
            - 8083:8983 #Browser port
	volumes:
	    - ./solr6/contentstore:/opt/alfresco-search-services/contentstore
            - ./solr6/data:/opt/alfresco-search-services/data

    activemq:
        image: alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.15.8
        mem_limit: 1g
        ports:
            - 8161:8161 # Web Console
            - 5672:5672 # AMQP
            - 61616:61616 # OpenWire
            - 61613:61613 # STOMP

    proxy:
        build:
          dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
          context: ./configs-to-override/proxy
        mem_limit: 256m
        depends_on:
            - alfresco
        ports:
            - 7080:7080
        links:
            - alfresco
            - share

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

kaynezhang — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:52:07 GMT

I am not sure what you mean by not working on developer system, what is your developer system environment?

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

venur — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:59:29 GMT

i mean to say developer system is using docker desktop on windows. It is still not working. Shared the compose file above. Working fine on ubuntu dev server.

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

kaynezhang — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:22:14 GMT

It dose not work on windows because there is no /etc/timezone on Windows

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

abhinavmishra14 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:31:16 GMT

So there are two things. One- synchronize the time/timezone etc. with host machine to containers. Two - Set the timezone for containers. In the first case, whatever time/timezone is set on host machine, it will be synchronized to containers.

In second case, you can use different timezone on host machine but can set a specific time zone for containers.

In case of synchronization, we bind mount host machine's localtime file. Which is true for linux but for windows it may not work.

In case of setting time zone, it is independent of host machine, whether it is windows or linux.

Try below settings and see if it works for you on "developer system" and "ubuntu dev server" both as reported by you.

For EDT timezone:

environment:
            TZ: "America/New_York"

or

environment:
          - TZ=America/New_York

A service level example:

alfresco:
        build:
          dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
          context: ./configs-to-override/alfresco
        mem_limit: 8g
        environment:
            JAVA_OPTS: "
                -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
                -Ddb.username=alfresco
                -Ddb.password=alfresco
                -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://postgres:5432/alfresco
                -Dsolr.host=solr6
                -Dsolr.port=8983
                -Dsolr.secureComms=none
                -Dsolr.base.url=/solr
                -Dindex.subsystem.name=solr6
                -Dshare.host=127.0.0.1
                -Dshare.port=7080
                -Dalfresco.host=localhost
                -Dalfresco.port=7080
                -Daos.baseUrlOverwrite=http://localhost:7080/alfresco/aos
                -Dmessaging.broker.url=\"failover:(nio://activemq:61616)?timeout=3000&jms.useCompression=true\"
                -Ddeployment.method=DOCKER_COMPOSE
                -DlocalTransform.core-aio.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dalfresco-pdf-renderer.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Djodconverter.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dimg.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dtika.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dtransform.misc.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dcsrf.filter.enabled=false
                -Xms8g -Xmx8g
                "
         TZ: "America/New_York"
	 volumes:
	    - ./alfresco/alf_data:/usr/local/tomcat/alf_data

Second e.g.

postgres:
        image: postgres:11.7
        mem_limit: 1g
        environment:
            - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=alfresco
            - POSTGRES_USER=alfresco
            - POSTGRES_DB=alfresco
            - TZ=America/New_York
        command: postgres -c max_connections=300 -c log_min_messages=LOG
        ports:
            - 5432:5432
	volumes:
            - ./postgres/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

venur — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:45:02 GMT

Worked!! I tried today on developer system docker desktop and ubuntu dev sever both.

@abhinavmishra14 Thnx for great explanation.

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

EddieMay — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:51:29 GMT

Hi @venur

That's great - thanks for accepting the solution!

Cheers,

Re: How to run alfresco and share containers in a specific time zone

abhinavmishra14 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:56:37 GMT

@venur wrote:

Worked!! I tried today on developer system docker desktop and ubuntu dev sever both.

@abhinavmishra14 Thnx for great explanation.

Glad to hear that it worked for you.