Creating a new Repository¶

A titan repository combines a docker container and its configuration with data that backs the volumes within that container. So every repository should have a running docker container associated with it. For more information on how the docker configuration is used, see the Managing Docker section.

To run a repository, you simply take the arguments you’d normally supply to docker run and pass that to titan run instead:

$ titan run mongo
Creating repository mongo
Creating docker volume mongo/v0 with path /data/configdb
Creating docker volume mongo/v1 with path /data/db
Running controlled container mongo
$ docker ps | grep mongo
755f23d7bbc9        mongo               "docker-entrypoint.s…"   6 seconds ago       Up 5 seconds         0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp                mongo
$ docker exec -it mongo mongo --quiet
> db.names.insert({ firstName: "Dorothy", lastName: "Vaughan" })
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
> db.names.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5d8d011a81973f4255f6bf25"), "firstName" : "Dorothy", "lastName" : "Vaughan" }

There are a couple things to note here:

• Titan will use any docker image published to a register. In this case, we pull down and run mongo:latest. The only requirement is that the containers must have one or more VOLUME declarations that indicate where persistent data is stored.

• In this example, titan mapped the default exposed port from the docker image to localhost. This is the same thing as manually adding -p 27017:27017 to map the mongo port to the expected port on your laptop.