Restart Axon Server Container with Previous Data

Imported from Google Groups
#1

PROBLEM: I start Axon server as Docker Container. Volumes are mounted outside to my host machine in docker-compose.yml:

version: '3.7' 
services:
  axon_server:
    image: 'axoniq/axonserver'
    ports: 
      - '8024:8024'
      - '8124:8124'
    hostname: localhost
    volumes: 
      - /data/axon:/data
      - /data/axon/eventdata:/data/eventdata
    privileged: yes



When I remove a Docker-container and build it again from image, all previously stored events are cleared.



QUESTION: How to restart Axon-server as Docker-container with previously saved data?
#2

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#3

Andrey,
glad to see you found the solution already. Note that on Linux (and MacOS) you can also use named volumes. The notation you are using here (with “:”) is translated to direct volume mounts, so they won’t show up if you use “docker volume ls”.

BTW I would strongly advise against setting the container’s hostname to “localhost”, as that is a reserved name. You can instead add another volume for “/config” and put a file “axonserver.properties” in there with “axoniq.axonserver.hostname=localhost”. This will do what you want, without confusing the rest of Docker. Another way to achieve this result would be to define a secret for the properties file and mount that into the “/config” directory:

version: ‘3.3’
services:
axonserver:
image: axoniq/axonserver
hostname: axonserver
volumes:

  • axonserver-data:/data

  • axonserver-events:/eventdata
    secrets:

  • source: axonserver-properties

target: /config/axonserver.properties
ports:

  • ‘8024:8024’

  • ‘8124:8124’
    networks:

  • axon-network

volumes:
axonserver-data:

driver: local
driver_opts:
o: bind
type: none
device: /data/axon
axonserver-events:
driver: local
driver_opts:
o: bind
type: none
device: /data/axon/eventdata

networks:

axon-network:

secrets:
axonserver-properties:
file: ./axonserver.properties

Cheers,
Bert Laverman