IronFunctions Runtime Options

Configuration

When starting IronFunctions, you can pass in the following configuration variables as environment variables. Use -e VAR_NAME=VALUE in docker run. For example:

docker run -e VAR_NAME=VALUE ...

Env Variables	Description	Default values
DB_URL	The database URL to use in URL format. See Databases for more information.	bolt:///app/data/bolt.db
MQ_URL	The message queue to use in URL format. See Message Queues for more information.	bolt:///app/data/worker_mq.db
API_URL	The primary IronFunctions API URL to that this instance will talk to. In a production environment, this would be your load balancer URL.	N/A
PORT	Sets the port to run on	8080
LOG_LEVEL	Set to DEBUG to enable debugging	INFO
DOCKER_HOST	Docker remote API URL	/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
DOCKER_API_VERSION	Docker remote API version	1.24
DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY	Set this option to enable/disable Docker remote API over TLS/SSL.	0
DOCKER_CERT_PATH	Set this option to specify where CA cert placeholder	~/.docker/cert.pem

Starting without Docker in Docker

The default way to run IronFunctions, as it is in the Quickstart guide, is to use docker-in-docker (dind). There are a couple reasons why we did it this way:

• It's clean. Once the container exits, there is nothing left behind including all the function images.
• You can set resource restrictions for the entire IronFunctions instance. For instance, you can set --memory on the docker run command to set the max memory for the IronFunctions instance AND all of the functions it's running.

There are some reasons you may not want to use dind, such as using the image cache during testing or you're running Windows.

Mount the Host Docker

One way is to mount the host Docker. Everything is essentially the same except you add a -v flag:

docker run --rm --name functions -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v $PWD/data:/app/data -p 8080:8080 iron/functions

Run outside Docker

You can of course just run the binary directly, you'll just have to change how you set the environment variables above.

See contributing doc for information on how to build and run.