Adding applications through docker compose

[adityapgupta]

Can we add the option to create new applications from a docker compose file? It should make deployment easy for some complex applications.

There are a few things I wanted to understand about the AIOpsLab architecture to implement this:

1. The main pipeline deploys a lot of kubernetes pods to run different components like the workload, detection, logging and observers. If I were to start a docker workload, how should the connections to kubernetes be implemented? This includes passing the workloads and getting logs.
2. I believe a new docker.py file would need to be added to the orchestrator services, assuming the shell.py file would probably not be enough.
3. Should the relevant docker images be built locally or pulled directly from docker hub? In particular, some images are large and may require a lot of time to pull (which might lead the application to timeout).
4. Are there any specific security protocols which need to be kept in mind while building this?

In general, what are the major files which would need to be changed/added for this to work?

[HacksonClark]

You would need to change a lot to make this work, since tools like get_metrics and get_logs rely on k8s, so, many tools that the agent uses will not be available since there's a pretty fundamental assumption that you're using k8s in AIOpsLab. It would be much easier to port your Docker app to kubernetes (most k8s apps use Docker for the containers) than it would be to rewrite major sections of the framework to support it IMO.

[HacksonClark]

You should see this comment if you haven't: #32 (comment)