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On Premise Virtual Appliance

This section is dedicated to the Image-Charts paying On Premise version. This virtual appliance is a special docker image that can be deployed on your own server(s) in your own datacenter(s) or infrastructure.

Features​

Limitation​

  • There is no trial available for Image-Charts On Premise. Please try out Image-Charts through our SaaS version.
  • Font support is currently unavailable in Image-Charts On Premise.

Download the container image​

First contact our support with your needs in term of traffic volume and number of deployments (replicas) wanted. Once subscribed to the On Premise plan you will receive a license_file. It contains the license expiration date as well as the serial number, it's mandatory to start the API. The email will also contains a download link.

curl "[download_link]" | docker load
Download link expiration

Image-Charts download link will only be active for 7 days

Run the Image Charts service​

docker run -it \
        -p 8080:8080 \
        --log-opt max-size=10m --log-opt max-file=5 \
        --restart=always \
        -v /path/to/your_license.lic:/license.lic \
        -e LICENSE_FILE_PATH=/license.lic \
        --entrypoint=/usr/src/app/image-charts \
        image-charts-on-premise:X.X.X

Monitor the API​

  • Health check is available at http://localhost:8080/_health
  • If the container receive a SIGTERM (e.g. docker stop {container_id}) http://localhost:8080/_health will yield a 500 HTTP error code but will still serve chart generation requests

Stop the container​

Send a SIGKILL to stop the container

docker kill {container_id}

Environment variables​

Environment variables are the perfect way to configure Image-Charts On Premise application.

  • PORT (default 8080): port to listen to

Requirements​

  • CPU: 1 CPU per Image-Charts container
  • Memory: 1Go minimum - 2Go recommended per Image-Charts container
  • Disk: 2Gb