If you are running on AWS ECS or another container-based orchestration system, you'll likely want to package Dagit using a Docker image.
A minimal skeleton Dockerfile that will run Dagit is shown below:
FROM python:3.7-slim
RUN mkdir -p /opt/dagster/dagster_home /opt/dagster/app
RUN pip install dagit dagster-postgres
# Copy your code and workspace to /opt/dagster/app
COPY repo.py workspace.yaml /opt/dagster/app/
ENV DAGSTER_HOME=/opt/dagster/dagster_home/
# Copy dagster instance YAML to $DAGSTER_HOME
COPY dagster.yaml /opt/dagster/dagster_home/
WORKDIR /opt/dagster/app
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT ["dagit", "-h", "0.0.0.0", "-p", "3000"]
You'll also need to include a workspace.yaml file in the same directory as the Dockerfile to configure your workspace:
load_from:
# References the file copied into your Dockerfile
- python_file: repo.py
as well as a dagster.yaml file to configure your Dagster instance:
storage:
postgres:
postgres_db:
username:
env: DAGSTER_PG_USERNAME
password:
env: DAGSTER_PG_PASSWORD
hostname:
env: DAGSTER_PG_HOST
db_name:
env: DAGSTER_PG_DB
port: 5432
compute_logs:
module: dagster_aws.s3.compute_log_manager
class: S3ComputeLogManager
config:
bucket: "mycorp-dagster-compute-logs"
prefix: "dagster-test-"
local_artifact_storage:
module: dagster.core.storage.root
class: LocalArtifactStorage
config:
base_dir: "/opt/dagster/local/"
In cases where you're using environment variables to configure the instance, you should ensure these environment variables are exposed in the running Dagit container.
Dagit servers expose a health check endpoint at /dagit_info, which returns a JSON response like:
{
"dagit_version": "0.12.0",
"dagster_graphql_version": "0.12.0",
"dagster_version": "0.12.0"
}
More advanced dagster deployments will require deploying more than one container. For example, if you are using dagster-daemon to run schedules and sensors or manage a queue of runs, you'll likely want a separate container running the dagster-daemon service. This service must have access to your dagster.yaml and workspace.yaml files, just like the Dagit container. You can also configure your workspace so that your code can be updated and deployed separately in its own container running a gRPC server, without needing to redeploy the other dagster services. To enable this setup, include a container exposing a gRPC server at a port, and add that port in your workspace.yaml file.
For example, your user code container might have the following Dockerfile:
FROM python:3.7-slim
# Checkout and install dagster libraries needed to run the gRPC server
# exposing your repository to dagit and dagster-daemon, and to load
# the DagsterInstance
RUN pip install \
dagster \
dagster-postgres \
dagster-docker
# Set $DAGSTER_HOME and copy dagster instance there
ENV DAGSTER_HOME=/opt/dagster/dagster_home
RUN mkdir -p $DAGSTER_HOME
COPY dagster.yaml $DAGSTER_HOME
# Add repository code
WORKDIR /opt/dagster/app
COPY repo.py /opt/dagster/app
# Run dagster gRPC server on port 4000
EXPOSE 4000
# Using CMD rather than ENTRYPOINT allows the command to be overridden in
# run launchers or executors to run other commands using this image
CMD ["dagster", "api", "grpc", "-h", "0.0.0.0", "-p", "4000", "-f", "repo.py"]
and your workspace might look like:
load_from:
# Each entry here corresponds to a container that exposes a gRPC server.
- grpc_server:
host: docker_example_user_code
port: 4000
location_name: "example_user_code"
When you update your code, you can rebuild and restart your user code container without needing to redeploy other parts of the system. Dagit will automatically notice that a new server has been redeployed and prompt you to refresh your workspace.
When you add or remove a user code container, you can also remove the corresponding entry from your workspace.yaml file. If this file is mounted on the dagit and dagster-daemon containers as a volume, you can pick up the changes in Dagit by reloading the workspace from the Workspace tab. The dagster-daemon container will automatically pick up the changes by periodically reloading the workspace from the workspace.yaml file.
To launch each run its own container, you can add the DockerRunLauncher to your dagster.yaml file:
run_launcher:
module: dagster_docker
class: DockerRunLauncher
config:
env_vars:
- DAGSTER_POSTGRES_USER
- DAGSTER_POSTGRES_PASSWORD
- DAGSTER_POSTGRES_DB
This launcher will start each run in a new container, using whatever image that you set in the DAGSTER_CURRENT_IMAGE environment variable in your user code container (which will usually be the same image as the user code container itself)
Any container that launches runs (usually the dagster-daemon container if you are maintaining a run queue or launching runs from schedules or sensors) must have permissions to create Docker containers in order to use this run launcher (mounting /var/run/docker.sock as a volume is one way to give it these permissions).
You can mount your code in your user code container so that you don't have to rebuild your container whenever your code changes. Even if you're using volume mounts, you still need to restart the container whenever your code changes.
If you are mounting your code as a volume in your user code container and using DockerRunLauncher to launch each run in a new container, you must specify your volume mounts in the DockerRunLauncher config as well. For example:
run_launcher:
module: dagster_docker
class: DockerRunLauncher
config:
env_vars:
- DAGSTER_POSTGRES_USER
- DAGSTER_POSTGRES_PASSWORD
- DAGSTER_POSTGRES_DB
container_kwargs:
volumes:
- /absolute/path/to/local/repo.py:/opt/dagster/app/
This example demonstrates a Dagster deployment using docker-compose that includes a Dagit container for loading and launching jobs, a dagster-daemon container for managing a run queue and submitting runs from schedules and sensors, a Postgres container for persistent storage, and a container with user code. The Dagster instance uses DockerRunLauncher to launch each run in its own container.
To start the deployment, run docker-compose up.