Special Configurations

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During our deployments, we have found that some customers need couple extra configurations that are not really suitable for product extensions. This chapter covers these briefly.

Logging to both catalina.out and stdout

By default, logs are printed to stdout only. To map them to catalina.out as well, change command in the end of the Dockerfiles to following one:

CMD /usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run 2>&1 | tee -a /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

Custom timezone for logs

By default, logs are printed in UTC timezone, so that they are timezone independent. However, you can override this by setting the TZ environment variable to the container.

In Docker Compose, you can do it like so:

services:
    powerauth-XYZ:
        environment:
            - TZ=Europe/Prague

In Kubernetes, you can do it like so:

spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        env:
          - name: TZ
            value: Europe/Prague

Random Number Generator (RNG) Performance

Docker images run in a very constrained environment compared to running on a physical machine. As a result, random number generators (RNG) have trouble gathering enough entropy and as a result, startup time of our Docker images can be very slow.

To fix that, you can use haveged image that provides an entropy gathering service:

# HAVEGED_VERSION=1.7c-1
docker run --privileged -d harbur/haveged:${HAVEGED_VERSION}