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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions doc/website/getting-started/examples/icedocker.md
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---
title: Sending and receiving data across multiple docker instances
---

{! ../iceoryx/iceoryx_examples/icedocker/README.md !}
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|[icehello](./icehello/) | Sending data to another process | :star: |
|[icedelivery](./icedelivery/) | Sending and receiving data using C++ | :star: |
|[icedelivery_in_c](./icedelivery_in_c/) | Sending and receiving data using C | :star: |
|[icedocker](./icedocker/) | Sending and receiving data across multiple docker instances | :star: |
|[iceoptions](./iceoptions/) | Configuring pub/sub settings like history cache size or startup behaviour | :star: |
|[complexdata](./complexdata/) | Sending/receiving some of the iceoryx STL container surrogates | :star: |
|[callbacks](./callbacks/) | Implementing event triggered callbacks using C++ | :star::star: |
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```c
const char APP_NAME[] = "iox-c-subscriber";
iox_runtime_init("APP_NAME");
iox_runtime_init(APP_NAME);
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```

2. We create a subscriber port and subscribe to the service
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```c
const char APP_NAME[] = "iox-c-publisher";
iox_runtime_init("APP_NAME");
iox_runtime_init(APP_NAME);
```

2. We create a publisher with the service
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# Use Iceoryx In A Docker Environment

## Introduction

Let's assume we are working on a system in which `iox-roudi` runs in a docker
environment and it should orchestrate two applications which are running again
in two different docker containers so that we end up with a system of 3
different docker containers.

To demonstrate the setup we use the
[icedelivery C++ example](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/tree/master/iceoryx_examples/icedelivery).

```
+-----------+
| docker 1 |
| |
| iox-roudi |
+-----------+

+-------------------+ +--------------------+
| docker 2 | send | docker 3 |
| |------->| |
| iox-cpp-publisher | data | iox-cpp-subscriber |
+-------------------+ +--------------------+
```

## Requirements

### Shared Access to Unix Domain Sockets

Every iceoryx application is registering itself at our central broker RouDi
by sending a message to the unix domain socket located at
`IOX_UDS_SOCKET_PATH_PREFIX/roudi` which is defined in the corresponding
platform settings file `platform_settings.hpp`. In linux the socket file handle
can be found at `/tmp/roudi`. While registering it announces its unix
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domain socket to roudi for the responses of application requests which were
send to roudi.
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This socket is stored as well in `/tmp/IOX_RUNTIME_NAME`. The `iox-cpp-publisher`
runtime has the same name as the binary which leads to the socket
`/tmp/iox-cpp-publisher`.

### Shared Access to File Locks

Iceoryx applications ensure that every runtime name is unique in the system
by creating a file lock before creating the runtime. This is stored in
`IOX_LOCK_FILE_PATH_PREFIX/IOX_RUNTIME_NAME.lock` whereby
`IOX_LOCK_FILE_PATH_PREFIX` is defined in the platform settings file
`platform_settings.hpp`. When running the icedelivery example in a linux
environment one can observe
the lock files `/tmp/roudi.lock`, `/tmp/iox-cpp-subscriber.lock` and
`/tmp/iox-cpp-publisher.lock`.

### Shared Access to Semaphores and Shared Memory

One of the tasks of the central broker RouDi is to create and distribute shared
memory. When the `iox-cpp-publisher` would like to send data it acquires a
pointer to this shared memory, writes the data into it and sends the
pointer to the `iox-cpp-subscriber` which reads the memory at the received
memory position.
Additionally, it is possible to signal events across process boundaries via
semaphores. For instance to signal a subscriber that data has arrived.

## Implementation

To have shared access to the required resources we have to bind the host
filesystem:

* `/tmp`
* `/dev`

into every docker container.

### Terminal Example

We start in 3 separate terminals 3 docker instances. In this example we
use `archlinux:latest` but one is free to choose any other linux distribution.
The iceoryx repository which contains an already build iceoryx can be found at
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`/home/user/iceoryx` which is bound to `/iceoryx`. The usage and building is
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explained in detail in the
[icedelivery C++ example](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/tree/master/iceoryx_examples/icedelivery).

#### Terminal 1 (iox-roudi)
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```
docker run --mount type=bind,source="/dev",target=/dev --mount type=bind,source=/home/user/iceoryx,target=/iceoryx --mount type=bind,source=/tmp,target=/tmp -it archlinux:latest
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cd /iceoryx
./build/iox-roudi
```

#### Terminal 2 (iox-cpp-publisher)
```
docker run --mount type=bind,source="/dev",target=/dev --mount type=bind,source=/home/user/iceoryx,target=/iceoryx --mount type=bind,source=/tmp,target=/tmp -it archlinux:latest
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cd /iceoryx
./build/iceoryx_examples/icedelivery/iox-cpp-publisher
```

#### Terminal 3 (iox-cpp-subscriber)

```
docker run --mount type=bind,source="/dev",target=/dev --mount type=bind,source=/home/user/iceoryx,target=/iceoryx --mount type=bind,source=/tmp,target=/tmp -it archlinux:latest
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cd /iceoryx
./build/iceoryx_examples/icedelivery/iox-cpp-subscriber
```

### docker-compose Example

We can also use `docker-compose` to start our test setup. Our example is coming
with a configuration file `docker-compose.yml` which can be used from the
iceoryx root path with the following command:

```
docker-compose -f iceoryx_examples/icedocker/docker-compose.yml --project-directory . up
```

We have to set the project directory explicitly so that the mapping of the
iceoryx root path is working as intended.
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services:
roudi:
image: archlinux:latest
command: /iceoryx/build/iox-roudi
volumes:
- .:/iceoryx
- /dev:/dev
- /tmp:/tmp
publisher:
image: archlinux:latest
command: /iceoryx/build/iceoryx_examples/icedelivery/iox-cpp-publisher
volumes:
- .:/iceoryx
- /dev:/dev
- /tmp:/tmp
subscriber:
image: archlinux:latest
command: /iceoryx/build/iceoryx_examples/icedelivery/iox-cpp-subscriber
volumes:
- .:/iceoryx
- /dev:/dev
- /tmp:/tmp
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# Exclude directories without CMake file from the out-of-tree build
EXAMPLES=${EXAMPLES/iceensemble/""}
EXAMPLES=${EXAMPLES/icecrystal/""}
EXAMPLES=${EXAMPLES/icedocker/""}
echo ">>>>>> Start Out-of-tree build <<<<<<"
echo ${EXAMPLES}
mkdir -p build_out_of_tree && cd build_out_of_tree
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