Deploying HQ

This page describes deploying Lenses HQ via docker.

The HQ docker image can be configured via volume mounts for the configuration file.

The HQ looks for the config.yaml in the current working directory. This is the root directory for Docker.

Running the Docker

terminal

docker run --name lenses-hq \
--network panoptes \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v $(pwd)/config.yaml:/config.yaml\
lensting/lenses-hq:6-preview

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Prerequisites

The main pre-requirements that has to be fulfilled before Lenses HQ container can be started and those are:

• Postgres database

Complete configuration file

In demo purposes and testing the product you can use our community license

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Main configuration file that has to be configured before running docker command is config.yaml.

Sample configuration file is following:

config.yaml

auth:
  administrators:
    - admin
    - [e-mail]
  users:
    - username: admin
      password: $2a$20$6kxYW6cAOpc3lxzne5dHKuZOPR.dMxtQvvE9scw7.dreKx27AR0L2
  sessionDuration: 24h
  saml:
    enabled: true
    baseURL: https://lenses6.company.com
    entityID: https://lenses6.company.com
    metadata: |          
         <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md:EntityDescriptor
          xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
            </md:IDPSSODescriptor>
          </md:EntityDescriptor>
          
    userCreationMode: manual
    groupMembershipMode: manual
    uiRootURL: /
    groupAttributeKey: groups
    authnRequestSignature:
      enabled: false
http:
  address: :8080
  accessControlAllowOrigin:
    - https://lenses6.company.com
  accessControlAllowCredentials: false
  secureSessionCookies: true
  
agents:
  address: :10000
  
database:
  host: postgres-postgresql.postgres.svc.cluster.local:5432
  username: $(LENSESHQ_PG_USERNAME)
  password: $(LENSESHQ_PG_PASSWORD)
  schema:
  database: lenseshq
  TLS: false
license:
  key: license_key_
  acceptEULA: true
logger:
  mode: text
  level: debug
metrics:
  prometheusAddress: :9090

More about configuration options you can find on the HQ configuration page.

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What's next?

After the successful configuration and installation of HQ, the next steps would be:

1. Deploying and Agent

2. Configuring IAM roles / groups / policies