How to run CCI in a docker container

CCI can be run within docker containers. Why would you want to do this ? 

Maybe you are on MacOS where there are no CCI binaries available.

Sometimes you don't want to install any CCI binaries and/or run multiple versions of CCI.

Here's how you can do this.

1. Pull the container down from the Docker Hub
   
   (.venv) visubramaniam@MQ7HY4M9M0 b85_cci % docker pull docker.io/subramaniamvi/azure-ee:latest
latest: Pulling from subramaniamvi/azure-ee
Digest: sha256:62f31722aec5e751044d58108696a931191384d9672b0a704ec347b19b0af641
Status: Image is up to date for subramaniamvi/azure-ee:latest
docker.io/subramaniamvi/azure-ee:latest
2. Run the container as below
   
   (.venv) visubramaniam@MQ7HY4M9M0 b85_cci % docker run -it azure-ee:latest bash             
bash-5.1$

3. Edit horcm100.conf and add your controller IP and the headers with appropriate timeouts.
   Note:- If you are working from home over a VPN connection and there is no firewall blocking port 31001 you may have to increase the default timeout of 3000 as shown below.
   
   bash-5.1$ cat /tmp/horcm100.conf
HORCM_MON
127.0.0.1          70249          1000              30000
HORCM_CMD
\\.\IPCMD-192.168.52.21-31001


4. Start up HORCM instance 100 as below

bash-5.1$ HORCMINST=100 HORCM_CONF=/tmp/horcm100.conf /HORCM/usr/bin/horcmstart.sh
starting HORCM inst 100
HORCM inst 100 starts successfully.

5. Test the HORCM instance with a raidcom get resource command
bash-5.1$ raidcom get resource -I100
User for Serial#[970249] : maintenance
Password : 
RS_GROUP            RGID   stat      Lock_owner     Lock_host      Serial#
meta_resource          0   Unlocked  -              -               970249
HDIDProvisioning       1   Unlocked  -              -               970249
6. Instructions on building the container itself is here
   https://github.com/visubramaniam/b85_cci/blob/main/README.md