Docker

Metarank official image is published in docker hub as metarank/metarank.

We publish the :latest tag, although it's not always recommended to have any production deployments without pinning a specific version.

Official docker images are multi-arch, and cross-built for the following platforms:

• linux/amd64: a regular docker image

• linux/arm64/v8: docker image which will work natively (so without emulation) on platforms like Mac M1/M2.

Running the docker image

All metarank sub-commands are wrapped into a single command-line API. To see the CLI, run the docker container:

$ docker run metarank/metarank:0.7.9 --help

+ exec /opt/java/openjdk/bin/java -jar /app/metarank.jar --help

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Usage: metarank <subcommand> <options>

Resources

Metarank image exposes a /data volume to handle all the local IO. For example, you can pass the input training dataset from your local host using the docker's -v switch:

docker run -v /home/user/input:/data metarank/metarank:latest train <opts>

Memory

Metarank docker container uses 1Gb of JVM heap by default. In practice the actual RSS memory usage is a bit higher than the heap size due to JVM's extra overhead.

This can be configured with the JAVA_OPTS environment variable:

docker run -e JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx5g" metarank/metarank:latest train <opts>

Ports

The image exposes the following ports:

• 8080 for API access for the inference and ingestion APIs

To map these ports to your host, use the -p flag:

docker run -p 8080:8080 metarank/metarank:latest serve <opts>