Verpix-Async

The job worker for handling the jobs that created by the API backend.

Installation

Install dependent system libraries:

• GraphicsMagick or ImageMagick
  • In Mac OS X, you can simply use Homebrew and do:

$ brew install imagemagick
$ brew install graphicsmagick

Install Gearman.

• Install Gearman on Mac

Install dependent submodules.

$ cd verpix-async
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ cd verpix-async/object-store
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Install dependent npm modules.

$ npm install

As a service

• Build image

  $ docker build -t verpix-async:1.0.0 --build-arg AWS_KEY=$KEY --build-arg AWS_SECRET=$SECRET --build-arg STORE_BKT=$BKT_NAME --build-arg GEARMAN_HOST=$IP ./

• Create container

  $ docker create --restart always $imageId

• Start container

  $ docker start $containerId

Usage

Set up a Gearman job server before starting the application.

Environment Variables

• S3_BKT The bucket name of the AWS S3 service (no default setting for production mode)
• G_SERVERS The server list of the gearman job servers (default: [ { host: 'localhost', port: 4370 } ])

Developement Mode

$ npm run dev

Production Mode

To start the server:

There is no default setting for S3_BKT in production mode, so do remember to specify it manually.

$ S3_BKT='verpix-img-production' npm start

To specify Gearman job servers:

$ G_SERVERS='[ { "host": "192.0.0.1", "port": 1234 }, { "host": "192.0.0.2", "port": 1235 } ]' S3_BKT='verpix-img-production' npm start

To check the server status by pm2:

$ pm2 show verpix-async
$ pm2 status

To stop the server:

$ npm stop