How to restart Weaviate in Docker without loosing my schema?-CodePudding

I spun up weaviate using the docker image and then created two classes and added around 400 data entries for these classes using a Java client. I also tried the Q&A module for querying the data and it was working ok.

As soon as I restarted the Weaviate instance in the Docker container, my schema is was lost.

I am completely new to Weaviate and not sure what went wrong.

CodePudding user response：

That's because the Weaviate volume sits inside your container. Mounting a container will solve your problem. In the example below, change /var/weaviate to any folder you like).

For example:

---
version: '3.4'
services:
  weaviate:
    command:
    - --host
    - 0.0.0.0
    - --port
    - '8080'
    - --scheme
    - http
    image: semitechnologies/weaviate:1.8.0
    ports:
    - 8080:8080
    restart: on-failure:0
    volumes:
      - /var/weaviate:/var/lib/weaviate # <== set a volume here
    environment:
      QUERY_DEFAULTS_LIMIT: 25
      AUTHENTICATION_ANONYMOUS_ACCESS_ENABLED: 'true'
      PERSISTENCE_DATA_PATH: '/var/lib/weaviate'
      DEFAULT_VECTORIZER_MODULE: 'none'
      ENABLE_MODULES: ''
      CLUSTER_HOSTNAME: 'node1' # <== this can be set to an arbitrary name
...

CodePudding user response：

Docker itself is all temporary by default, That's part of the point of docker low footprint low clean up.

You can use volumes to create and map to a volume that is a shared folder with the host machine that will stay and remount between instances of the container.

Full documentation is here.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v3/#volume-configuration-reference

TLDR;

A volumes, section to the compose file. That would look something like this:

services:
  weaviate:
    image: waviate
    volumes:
      - localFolder:/var/lib/weaviate/data