orkid-ui

orkid-ui

Dashboard to monitor and manage Orkid task queue.

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Table of Contents

• Running locally
• Running with Docker
• Running with docker-compose
• Available Environment Variables
• Development

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Running locally

Minimum Requirements:

- Node.js >= 10
- Redis >= 5

The simplest way to run orkid-ui is using npx.

npx orkid-ui

Open in browser: http://localhost:3100

• This will start orkid-ui in "non-production mode" (without basic authentication).
• It'll try to connect to redis-server on localhost.

You can change these behaviors using environmental variables (see below for the full list of supported env variables). For example:

HTTP_PORT=1337 \
  HTTP_USER=admin \
  HTTP_PASSWORD="_your_military_grade_secret_password_" \
  REDIS_HOST=_REDIS_HOST_OR_IP_TO_CONNECT_TO_ \
  npx orkid-ui

Open in browser: http://localhost:1337

This will start orkid-ui on port 1337 with HTTP Basic Auth protection and it'll connect to the specified REDIS_HOST instead of localhost.

❄️ However, while this may seem convenient, it'll not restart automatically if it crashes or system reboots. The recommended approach is to use docker-compose to run orkid-ui in production.

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Running with Docker

Docker images are available for orkid-ui on the Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/orkidio/orkid-ui

To start the container:

# use sudo if necessary
docker run \
  --name orkid-ui \
  --detach \
  --env "HTTP_USER=admin" \
  --env "HTTP_PASSWORD=_your_secret_password_" \
  --env "REDIS_HOST=_REDIS_HOST_OR_IP_TO_CONNECT_TO_" \
  --publish 1337:3100 \
  --rm \
  orkidio/orkid-ui:<version>

Replace <version> in orkidio/orkid-ui:<version> with a proper orkid-ui docker image version. It's always good practice to use a specific version on production, although you can use latest as version too.

🙌 For a list of available orkid-ui docker image versions/tags, see here: https://hub.docker.com/r/orkidio/orkid-ui/tags

Now you can access orkid-ui on: http://YOUR_IP:1337 with a username and password.

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Running with docker-compose (recommended for production)

It might be cumbersome to use all the cli flags properly with docker. docker-compose provides an easier way.

🤗 A sample docker-compose.yml file is provided here: https://github.com/mugli/orkid-ui/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

Again, replace <version> in orkidio/orkid-ui:<version> with a proper orkid-ui docker image version.

Common operations with docker-compose

1. Starting orkid-ui

In the directory where docker-compose.yml is present:

# use sudo if necessary
docker-compose up -d

If you are using sudo and passing env vars from shell to the docker services (like -HTTP_PASSWORD="$MYPASS" under the environment: key in the yml file), you may need to start it like this:

# preserve existing environment variable
sudo -E docker-compose up -d

2. Stopping orkid-ui

In the directory where docker-compose.yml is present:

# use sudo if necessary
docker-compose down

3. See if orkid-ui is running

In the directory where docker-compose.yml is present:

# use sudo if necessary
docker-compose ps

4. Viewing logs

In the directory where docker-compose.yml is present:

# use sudo if necessary
docker-compose logs

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Available Environment Variables

These env vars are available however you run orkid-ui.

NODE_ENV

When set 'production', it'll ensure HTTP_USER, HTTP_PASSWORD and REDIS_HOST variables are set.

HTTP_HOST

HTTP host/IP to listen to. Default is '0.0.0.0' to listen to all interfaces.

HTTP_PORT

HTTP port to listen to. Default is 3100.

HTTP_USER

User for HTTP Basic Authentication. Must be present when NODE_ENV is 'production'. Both user and password need to be present for HTTP Basic Authentication.

HTTP_PASSWORD

Password for HTTP Basic Authentication. Must be present when NODE_ENV is 'production'. Both user and password need to be present for HTTP Basic Authentication.

REDIS_HOST

Redis host to connect to, assuming orkid-node is connected to the same redis server.

Important! Redis server version must be >= 5 because we need streams support.

REDIS_PORT

Redis port to connect to. Default 6379.

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Development

1. Start redis-server locally

2. Start Orkid API Server

Start orkid-api as described here: https://github.com/mugli/orkid-api#development

3. Start Orkid UI in dev mode

npm run dev

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Maintainer(s)

• Mehdi Hasan Khan (Twitter: @MehdiHK)

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License

MIT

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Related Projects

• orkid-node: Reliable and modern Redis based task queue for Node.js. Use this to produce and consume jobs.
• orkid-api: GraphQL API to monitor and manage Orkid task queue (used internally by orkid-ui).