Shellhttpd-MQTT

This is similar to the shellhttpd used in the previous tutorial, but instead of returning the specified message like Hello World, it returns how many requests netcat had.

This app also uses MQTT to broadcast the total access count of shellhttpd in containers/requests.

While in the containers folder, use git to download shellhttpd-mqtt from the extra-containers repo:

git checkout remotes/fio/tutorials -- shellhttpd-mqtt

The shellhttpd-mqtt app should now be inside your containers folder:

tree -L 2 .

.
├── mosquitto
│   └── docker-compose.yml
├── README.md
├── shellhttpd
│   ├── docker-build.conf
│   ├── docker-compose.yml
│   ├── Dockerfile
│   ├── httpd.sh
│   └── shellhttpd.conf
└── shellhttpd-mqtt
    ├── docker-compose.yml
    ├── Dockerfile
    └── httpd.sh

Check the content of shellhttpd-mqtt/docker-compose.yml:

cat shellhttpd-mqtt/docker-compose.yml

# shellhttpd-mqtt/docker-compose.yml
version: '3.2'

services:
  httpd-mqtt:
    image: hub.foundries.io/${FACTORY}/shellhttpd-mqtt:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8082:${PORT-8082}
    extra_hosts:
      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"

The shellhttpd-mqtt/docker-compose.yml file has the configuration for the shellhttpd-mqtt app:

• httpd-mqtt: Name of the first service.
• image: Specifies the Docker container image from hub.foundries.io/${FACTORY}/shellhttpd-mqtt:latest. This was created by the FoundriesFactory™ Platform CI based on the Dockerfile in shellhttpd-mqtt. In this case, the same folder.
• extra_hosts: Map the container to access the device localhost over the address host.docker.internal.

Dockerfile contains the commands to assemble the hub.foundries.io/${FACTORY}/shellhttpd-mqtt:latest Docker container image.

The CI will build and publish the image. Finally, the Docker Compose Application above will specify it.

Check the content of shellhttpd-mqtt/Dockerfile:

cat shellhttpd-mqtt/Dockerfile

# shellhttpd-mqtt/Dockerfile
FROM alpine

RUN apk add --no-cache mosquitto-clients vim

COPY httpd.sh /usr/local/bin/

CMD ["/usr/local/bin/httpd.sh"]

Notice that this image adds the mosquitto-clients app to the image. Finally, check the content of shellhttpd-mqtt/httpd.sh:

cat shellhttpd-mqtt/httpd.sh

#!/bin/sh
PORT="${PORT-8082}"
ACCESS=1
while true; do
        RESPONSE="HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\nNumber of Access = ${ACCESS}\r\n"
        echo -en "$RESPONSE" | nc -l -p "${PORT}" > ./tmp.log || true
        if grep -q "GET / HTTP/1.1" ./tmp.log; then
                echo "Number of Access = $ACCESS"
                mosquitto_pub -h host.docker.internal -t "containers/requests" -m "ACCESS=$ACCESS"
                ACCESS=$((ACCESS+1))
                echo "----------------------"
        fi
done

This httpd.sh script is similar to the one used in Getting Started With Docker.

The first line in the while loop creates the RESPONSE string from the HTTP response and Number of Access.

Next, netcat waits for an access and forwards the stdout to tmp.log. Once it gets access, grep``checks that it is a ``GET/HTTP/1.1 request. If so, ACCESS is incremented, and then a message is sent with mosquitto_pub.

mosquitto_pub uses the address host.docker.internal which is mapped to``localhost`` and corresponds to the mosquitto broker. It is using the topic containers/requests, and the message carries the access count.