Virtual Cloud Operator Tools in Docker Image

Build a Docker image for a Virtual Cloud Operator with the VCO Terraform plugin and Commandline interface tools to manage resources in the VCO.

Setup and Deployment

This repository provides a Dockerfile and accompanying scripts to build an image that will contain relevant tools to manage your resources in a VCO portal. One must have access to their customer account in the VCO portal to be able to build this image and obtain a valid JWT from the API page in the VCO portal. The URL for the VCO is also passed as an environment variable.

Prerequisites

Docker container runtime must be installed on the machine from which this build will be done, valid JWT and URL for VCO portal.

Build steps

Clone repository

Clone the repository and switch to the directory with Dockerfile

git clone https://git.gig.tech/gigimages/images/docker/gig_tools

cd gig_tools/cli_terraform/

Set environment variables to pass to image during build

ARG_JWT=

ARG_VCO_API_URL=

export ARG_JWT

export ARG_VCO_API_URL

Run docker build

Run the command to build a docker image from Dockerfile

docker build --build-arg ARG_JWT --build-arg ARG_VCO_API_URL -t <VCO_NAME> .

Container run

To use the build image, run the command below to access the container.

docker run -w /root/home/ -i -t <VCO_NAME> /bin/bash

setup JWT if expired

JWT is set during the image built but after a while, the token expires. To renew the token in the container run the command below

echo $JWT | <VCO_CLI_NAME> config auth-token update
or
echo $JWT | ateam config auth-token update