Settting up Anchore engine and cli

20 Nov 2018 - Christopher McArthur

Mission

Document how to setup both the engine and cli. However, the online documentation for the engine is very good nice and easy, as well as the CLI documentation

Install Engine

mkdir ~/aevolume
mkdir ~/aevolume/config
mkdir ~/aevolume/db
cd ~/aevolume
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/anchore-engine/master/scripts/docker-compose/docker-compose.yaml -o ~/aevolume/docker-compose.yaml
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/anchore-engine/master/scripts/docker-compose/config.yaml -o ~/aevolume/config/config.yaml
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

Verify both engine and db are running with docker-compose ps

Starting the Engine ( post installation )

cd ~/aevolume
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

Stopping the Engine

docker-compose- down

Installing CLI

WARNING: If you are managing more than one version of python this is very painful

# Ubuntu install
apt-get update
apt-get install python-pip
pip install anchorecli

# Set the default login ( use your own values if you modified the configuration files )
export ANCHORE_CLI_USER=admin
export ANCHORE_CLI_PASS=foobar
export ANCHORE_CLI_URL=http://localhost:8228/v1

Starting the CLI

You will need to export the ANCHORE_CLI variables again if your session ended