Docker Builds

This section describes how to build the Docker images and also the VarFish site data tarballs. The intended audience are VarFish developers.

Build Docker Images

Building the image:

$ ./docker/build-docker.sh

By default the latest tag is used. You can change this with.

$ GIT_TAG=v0.1.0 ./docker/build-docker.sh

Get varfish-docker-compose

The database is built in varfish-docker-compose.

$ git clone git@github.com:bihealth/varfish-docker-compose.git
$ cd varfish-docker-compose
$ ./init.sh

First-Time Container Startup

You have to startup the postgres container once to create the Postgres database. Once it has been initialized, shutdown with Ctrl-C.

$ docker-compose up postgres
<Ctrl-C>

Now copy over the postgresql.conf file that has been tuned for the VarFish use cases.

$ cp config/postgres/postgresql.conf volumes/postgres/data/postgresql.conf

Bring up the site again so we can build the database.

$ docker-compose up

Wait until varfish-web is up and running and all migrations have been applied, look for VARFISH MIGRATIONS END in the output of run-docker-compose-up.sh.

Pre-Build Postgres Database

Download static data

$ cd /plenty/space
$ wget https://file-public.bihealth.org/transient/varfish/varfish-server-background-db-20201006.tar.gz{,.sha256}
$ sha256sum -c varfish-server-background-db-20201006.tar.gz.sha256
$ tar xzvf varfish-server-background-db-20201006.tar.gz

Adjust the docker-compose.yml file such that /plenty/space is visible in the varfish-web container.

volumes:
    - "/plenty/space:/data"

Get the name of the running varfish-web container.

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                       COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS              PORTS                                      NAMES
44be6ece102e   minio/minio                                                 "/usr/bin/docker-ent…"   11 minutes ago   Up About a minute   9000/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_minio_1
3b23113e5aa1   quay.io/biocontainers/exomiser-rest-prioritiser:12.1.0--1   "exomiser-rest-prior…"   11 minutes ago   Up About a minute                                              varfish-docker-compose_exomiser-rest-prioritiser_1
b8c49e8c24a6   quay.io/biocontainers/jannovar-cli:0.33--0                  "jannovar -Xmx6G -Xm…"   11 minutes ago   Up About a minute                                              varfish-docker-compose_jannovar_1
409a535b9951   bihealth/varfish-server:0.22.1-0                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   8080/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_varfish-celerybeat_1
7eb7425c59e2   bihealth/varfish-server:0.22.1-0                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   8080/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_varfish-celeryd-import_1
020811fde306   bihealth/varfish-server:0.22.1-0                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   8080/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_varfish-celeryd-query_1
87b03ee0249b   bihealth/varfish-server:0.22.1-0                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   8080/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_varfish-celeryd-default_1
7a3fdb337fae   bihealth/varfish-server:0.22.1-0                            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   8080/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_varfish-web_1
9295a101570f   postgres:12                                                 "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   5432/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_postgres_1
1c4d6e235074   traefik:v2.3.1                                              "/entrypoint.sh --pr…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp   varfish-docker-compose_traefik_1
8d72fd096743   redis:6                                                     "docker-entrypoint.s…"   12 minutes ago   Up About a minute   6379/tcp                                   varfish-docker-compose_redis_1

Initialize the tables (while at least docker-compose up varfish-web postgres redis is running).

$ docker exec -it -w /usr/src/app varfish-docker-compose_varfish-web_1 python manage.py import_tables --tables-path /data --threads 8

Then, shutdown the docker-compose up, remove the volumes: entry for varfish-web, and create a tarball of the postgres database to have a clean copy.

Add Other Data

Copy the other required data for jannovar and exomiser. The result should look similar to this:

# tree volumes/jannovar volumes/exomiser
volumes/jannovar
├── hg19_ensembl.ser
├── hg19_refseq_curated.ser
└── hg19_refseq.ser
volumes/exomiser
├── 1909_hg19
│   ├── 1909_hg19_clinvar_whitelist.tsv.gz
.   .   [..]
│   └── 1909_hg19_variants.mv.db
└── 1909_phenotype
    ├── 1909_phenotype.h2.db
    ├── phenix
    │   ├── 10.out
    .   .   [..]
    │   ├── ALL_SOURCES_ALL_FREQUENCIES_genes_to_phenotype.txt
    │   ├── hp.obo
    │   └── phenotype_annotation.tab
    └── rw_string_10.mv

3 directories, 55 files

Create a Superuser

While the docker-compose up is running

$ docker exec -it -w /usr/src/app varfish-docker-compose_varfish-web_1 python manage.py createsuperuser
Username: root
Email address:
Password: <changeme>
Password (again): <changeme>
Superuser created successfully.

Setup Initial Data

Create test category & project.

Obtain API key and configure varfish-cli.

Import some test data through the API.

$ varfish-cli --no-verify-ssl case create-import-info --resubmit \
    92f5d735-0967-4db2-a801-50fe96359f51 \
    $(find path/to/variant_export/work/*NA12878* -name '*.tsv.gz' -or -name '*.ped')

Create Data Tarballs

Now create the released data tarballs.

tar -cf - volumes | pigz -c > varfish-site-data-v0.22.2-20210212.tar.gz && sha256sum varfish-site-data-v0.22.2-20210212.tar.gz >varfish-site-data-v0.22.2-20210212.tar.gz.sha256 &
tar -cf - test-data | pigz -c > varfish-test-data-v0.22.2-20210212.tar.gz && sha256sum varfish-test-data-v0.22.2-20210212.tar.gz >varfish-test-data-v0.22.2-20210212.tar.gz.sha256