matlockx/zipkin-cassandra repository overview

⁠Zipkin using Docker (with boot2docker)

There are actually two repos that have done the hard work here:

• https://github.com/itszero/docker-zipkin⁠
• https://github.com/lispmeister/docker-zipkin⁠

Unfortunately both of them haven't worked for me on my mac book with boot2docker. Cassandra couldn't be started because of missing permissions for setting the ulimit. So I took the cassandra docker image from poklet (https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/poklet/cassandra⁠) and integrated that into the deploy script.

⁠Start Zipkin

⁠Config

All you need to do is to run the deploy.sh and change some of the parameters at the top of the file. At least you should have a look at the IP for your boot2docker vm (DOCKER_DAEMON_HOST). When you're not running boot2docker set it to localhost or whatever IP the docker daemon is running on.

⁠Run

Simple start:

   ./deploy.sh

Remove running images before starting the new setup:

   export CLEANUP="y" && ./deploy.sh

⁠Check

Open your http://[HOST_ADDRESS]:8080 in your browser, e.g. http://192.168.59.103:8080/⁠. You should see the zipkin page. It takes some time for zipkin-web to start. You can double check that by

   docker logs zipkin-web

Then you are ready to go.

⁠Zipkin Example

I would suggest to try out the good activator template from Lev Khomich:

• levkhomich/activator-akka-tracing (https://github.com/levkhomich/activator-akka-tracing⁠)