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Install Concourse#

System Requirements

Binary Install#

  1. Download the installer. From the terminal, navigate to the location where you want to install Concourse and download the installer for the latest version:

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      curl -o concourse-server.bin -L http://concoursedb.com/download/latest

  2. Run the installer. Execute the downloaded .bin file. You’ll be prompted to enter an administrator password so the installer can add the Concourse scripts and log files to your $PATH. This is recommended but not required. If you don’t want this level of system integration, simply press CTRL+C at the prompt.

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      sh concourse-server.bin

  3. Start Concourse. Concourse ships with reasonable default configuration so you can use it right out-the-box! If necessary, you can configure how Concourse runs by editing the conf/concourse.prefs configuration file located in Concourse’s home directory.

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      concourse start

Docker#

You can also quickly get started with Concourse using one of our provided Docker images.

Starting concourse with a persistent/shared data directory#

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docker run -p 1717:1717 -v </path/to/local/data>:/data --name concourse cinchapi/concourse

NOTE: The above command will run Concourse in the foreground. To run in the background, add a -d flag immediately after the docker run command.

Modifying the configuration#

You can add or modifiy any configuration that would normally go in the conf/concourse.prefs file using environment variables that are passed to the docker container.

Simply UPPERCASE the preference key and prepend it with CONCOURSE_. For example, you can modify the heap_size preference by passing an environment variable named CONCOURSE_HEAP_SIZE to the docker container.

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docker run -p 1717:1717 -e CONCOURSE_HEAP_SIZE=<HEAP_SIZE> -v </path/to/local/data>:/data --name concourse cinchapi/concourse

Using concourse shell#

You can spin up an ad-hoc docker container running concourse shell to connect to the dockerized Concourse instance.

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docker run -it --rm --link concourse:concourse cinchapi/concourse shell --host concourse --password admin

Running client-side CLIs#

Similar to concourse shell any client-side CLIs (e.g. those that can be run from a remote machine) can be dockerized using an ad-hoc container that is linked to the dockerized Concourse instance.

For example, you can perform an interactive import that reads input from the command line:

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docker run -it --rm --link concourse:concourse cinchapi/concourse import --host concourse --password admin

And, you can similary import a file from the host machine to the dockerized Concourse instance:

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xargs -I % docker run -i --rm --link concourse:concourse --mount type=bind,source=%,target=/data/% cinchapi/concourse import --host concourse --password admin -d /data/% <<< /absolute/path/to/file

Running server-side CLIs#

You can run server-side CLIs (e.g. those that must be run from the same machine as Concourse) by leveraging the docker exec functionality on the container running Concourse.

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docker exec -it concourse concourse <command> <args>

For example, you can call the concourse users sessions command:

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docker exec -it concourse concourse users sessions --password admin