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......@@ -6,83 +6,61 @@ Opaque is designed as a web application which can be easily used by researchers
In particular researchers can use Opaque to start OCR jobs for digitized sources. The text output of these OCR jobs can then be used as an input for tagging processes (POS, NER etc.).
As a last step texts can be loaded into an information retrieval system to query for specific words, phrases in connection with POS tags.
As a last step texts can be loaded into an information retrieval system to query for specific words, phrases in connection with linguistic features.
## Dependencies
- Docker: https://www.docker.com/
- Python 3.5+
- cifs-utils
- Docker
- Docker Compose
## Setup
0. **Create log files**
``` bash
mkdir /logs
```
## Configuration and startup
1. **Create Docker swarm:**
The generated computational workload is handled by a [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/) swarm. A swarm is a group of machines that are running Docker and joined into a cluster. It consists out of two different kinds of members, managers and workers. Currently it is not possible to specify a dedicated Docker host, instead Opaque expects the executing system to be a swarm manager of a swarm with at least one dedicated worker machine. The [swarm setup](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/) process is described best in the Docker documentation.
2. Create a dedicated user `opaque` on all swarm members with `sudo useradd opaque`.
The generated computational workload is handled by a [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/) swarm. A swarm is a group of machines that are running Docker and joined into a cluster. It consists out of two different kinds of members, managers and workers. Currently it is not possible to specify a dedicated Docker host, instead Opaque expects the executing system to be a swarm manager of a cluster with at least one dedicated worker machine. The swarm setup process is described best in the [Docker documentation](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/).
3. Create shared network storage
A shared network space is necessary so that all swarm members have access to all the data. To achieve this a [Samba](https://www.samba.org/) share is used.
2. **Create a network storage**
A shared network space is necessary so that all swarm members have access to all the data. To achieve this a [Samba](https://www.samba.org/) can be used.
``` bash
# Start a samba service on a swarm manager node
SAMBA_DIRECTORY=</ABSOLUT/PATH>
SAMBA_HOSTNAME=<HOSTNAME>
SAMBA_PASSWORD=<SET_PASSWORD>
docker service create \
--constraint node.hostname==$SAMBA_HOSTNAME \
--mount type=bind,src=$SAMBA_DIRECTORY,dst=/storage.opaque \
--name samba_opaque \
--publish published=139,target=139,mode=host \
--publish published=445,target=445,mode=host \
dperson/samba \
-p \
-s "storage.opaque;/storage.opaque;no;no;no;opaque" \
-u "opaque;$SAMBA_PASSWORD"
# The following steps need to be executed on all swarm members
# Login as opaque user
sudo su opaque
# Create mount point for opaque storage
mkdir -p $HOME/mnt/opaque
# Mount the samba share
sudo mount -t cifs -o gid=opaque,password=$SAMBA_PASSWORD,uid=opaque,user=opaque,vers=3.0 //$SAMBA_HOSTNAME/storage.opaque $HOME/mnt/opaque
# Example: Create a Samba share via Docker
# More details can be found under https://hub.docker.com/r/dperson/samba/
$ sudo mkdir -p /srv/nopaque/storage
$ docker run \
--name opaque_storage \
-v /srv/nopaque/storage:/srv/nopaque/storage \
-p 445:445 \
dperson/samba \
-p \
-s storage.nopaque;/srv/nopaque/storage;no;no;no;nopaque \
-u nopaque;nopaque
# Mount the Samba share on all swarm member nodes with the following code
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/nopaque
$ sudo mount --types cifs --options gid=${USER},password=nopaque,uid=${USER},user=nopaque,vers=3.0 //<YOUR IP>/storage.nopaque /mnt/nopaque
```
4. Clone the Opaque repository to the swarm manager, that should execute the Opaque server software
```
git clone https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/opaque.git
cd opaque
3. **Download Opaque**
``` bash
$ git clone https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/opaque.git
$ cd opaque
$ docker-compose pull
```
4.1 Create a configuration file
4. **Configure your instance**
``` bash
touch .env
# Account information of a mail account for sending emails to opaque users.
echo "MAIL_USERNAME=opaque@example.com" >> .env
echo "MAIL_PASSWORD=password" >> .env
echo "MAIL_SERVER=smtp.example.com" >> .env
echo "MAIL_PORT=587" >> .env
echo "MAIL_USE_TLS=true" >> .env
# A user registering with this email address will automatically promoted as an admin.
echo "NOPAQUE_ADMIN=admin.opaque@example.com" >> .env
# Absolut path to an existing directory to save all opaque files.
echo "OPAQUE_STORAGE=/home/opaque/mnt/opaque" >> .env
$ cp nopaque.env.tpl nopaque.env
$ <YOUR EDITOR> nopaque.env # Fill out the empty variables within this file.
```
4.2 Create Python virtual environment, activate it and install the required python packages.
```
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
5. **Start your instance**
``` bash
# Execute the following 3 steps only on first startup
$ docker-compose run web flask upgrade
$ docker-compose run web flask insert-initial-database-entries
$ docker-compose down
5. Start the server: `python opaque.py`
6. test
$ docker-compose up
```
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