Installation

A single instance Interactor is available as a docker image. You may start an instance of Interactor using the following docker-compose.yaml.

Steps

1. Create a docker-compose.yaml file in a directory of your choice. The code is provided below.
2. Issue following command from the same directory to start Interactor.

docker compose up

• Make sure Docker is running in your system.
  
• Be sure to run in the directory where the file exists.

3. Browse to localhost:4000 to connect to User Defined Automation UI

tip

Remove ./data-postgres directory if exists. This resets everything to a new installation.

rm -r data-postgres

Docker Compose File

docker-compose.yaml

version: '3'
services:
  db:
    image: postgres:15
    restart: always
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: interactor
      POSTGRES_USER: interactor
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: interactor
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    healthcheck:
      test: /usr/bin/pg_isready -h localhost -U $$POSTGRES_USER
      interval: 1s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 120
    volumes:
      - ./data-postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  interactor-language-javascript:
    image: interactor/interactor-language-javascript:latest
    pull_policy: always
    restart: always
  interactor:
    image: interactor/interactor:latest
    depends_on:
      - db
    ports:
      - 1290:1290
      - 4000:4000
    environment:
      PGUSER: interactor
      INTERACTOR_DATASTORE: postgres
      INTERACTOR_POSTGRES_DB: interactor
      INTERACTOR_POSTGRES_USER: interactor
      INTERACTOR_POSTGRES_PASSWORD: interactor
      INTERACTOR_POSTGRES_HOSTNAME: db
      INTERACTOR_JAVASCRIPT_ADAPTER_ADDRESS: interactor-language-javascript
      INTERACTOR_MANAGER_API_KEY: default
      # Access-Control-Allow-Origin setting for CORS. Space separated list of URLs. * indicates all origins. CORS is disabled without this value.
      # INTERACTOR_CORS_ORIGIN: *
      INTERACTOR_HISTORY: redis://redis:6379
    pull_policy: always
    restart: always
  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 6379:6379

Once interactor Engine is installed, it may be customized using HTTP REST API operations.

• Add and enable services for the platform users
• Notification port (Could be part of env var, but able to change using API)
• User role definition and access control

Default settings

• The latest official release of Interactor image is on interactor/interactor:latest.

• Interactor environment variable INTERACTOR_MANAGER_API_KEY is set to default.

  • Everybody who installs the unlicensed version has the same default API Key
  • API Key is can be updated with an official Interactor license

How API key is used

Once you are ready to deploy, you enter the API Key of your choice. Your API Key can be any string value.

When making API call the Interactor engine, API Key is entered in the header.

API Call

curl --location 'http://localhost:1290/v1/service' --header 'api_key: default'

danger

A licensed version of Interactor is needed to change the API Key. INTERACTOR_MANAGER_API_KEY is ignored without a license.

• It is recommended that you change the API Key for security reasons.
• The API Key is for using Interactor through API calls.
• API calls are authenticated using API Key that is shared between the UI and Interactor.

Ports opened on the docker

5432: PostgreSQL Database
4000: Interactor user interface
1290: API calls

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