Hi All, I have a newb question that I'm sure someo...
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adamant-magazine-62649
04/11/2022, 11:23 PMHi All, I have a newb question that I'm sure someone on here will be able to answer. I am trying to follow the instructions to create users using the user.props file as per https://datahubproject.io/docs/how/auth/add-users however, for some reason I get a "The \"HOME\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string." warning when I run datahub docker quickstart. I've looked in my home folder and there is a .datahub directory but the only file in there is telemetry-config.json. So, I created the C:\Users\user\.datahub\plugins\frontend\auth directory and put a user.props file in there, and restarted my datahub container. No luck with adding users this way. Can someone please shed some light on this? How can I set the /HOME/ variable, I am assuming this will fix the issue? Thanks.
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early-lamp-41924
04/11/2022, 11:55 PMHi @adamant-magazine-62649 ! So we mount the directory mentioned in the doc into the container here https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/master/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml#L60 If you are not using this docker-compose, search for the datahub-frontend-react container’s volumes section. Since HOME directory does not exist in windows, you can specify a path here directly! so
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volumes:
- <<path-to-plugins-dir>>:/etc/datahub/pluginsplus1 1
early-lamp-41924
04/11/2022, 11:56 PMNote that the part after the colon should not be changed as that is the path the app reads from!
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adamant-magazine-62649
05/25/2022, 2:35 PM@early-lamp-41924 Out of interest, if I start datahub with docker-compose instead of the quickstart can I put this setting into the .yml file? The answer to this isn't obvious on the datahubproject.io website
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early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 4:48 PMYes!!
early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 4:49 PMThe docker-compose.yml files are designed to be a starting point for you to customize. Feel free to make edits to it locally and deploy!
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adamant-magazine-62649
05/25/2022, 5:30 PMexcellent, so where does the local file start life? I'm assuming inside the appdata directories on windows?
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early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 5:31 PMSo the <<path-to-plugin-dirs>> can be anything you prefer. Docker just mounts that directory into the docker container
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adamant-magazine-62649
05/25/2022, 5:33 PMok, so I can get a copy of the .yml here: https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/master/docker/quickstart/docker-compose-without-neo4j.quickstart.yml#L60 and modify it locally with the directory I want to mount, then use docker-compose on that file to essentially "quickstart" datahub based on the settings I have defined locally?
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early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 6:00 PMYes!
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early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 6:01 PMNot sure if the datahub cli works 100% on windows, but if it does, you can also specify the local docker-compose file by using
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datahub docker quickstart --quickstart-compose-file <<path-to-docker-compose-file>>plus1 1
early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 6:01 PMThe CLI gives better signal about whether the components have been deployed successfully, which makes it easier to work with (It runs docker-compose under the hood)
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adamant-magazine-62649
05/25/2022, 9:25 PM@early-lamp-41924 tested and working for me. Thanks for your help, appreciate it.
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early-lamp-41924
05/25/2022, 9:56 PMGlad to hear!!
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