Incubator-superset: Setting up superset using docker

[ali-bahjati]

This post is for everyone who wants to set up superset using docker since they are some problems which are differently listed as issues here but may be hard to find.

First add gevent to python requirements.
Second add user: root:root to your superset service in docker-compose.

And then you can follow the instructions on doc. However if you want to load the examples you should instead of running:
SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=yes docker-compose run --rm superset ./docker-init.sh
run this:
docker-compose run --rm -e SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=yes superset ./docker-init.sh

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[ali-bahjati]

Also if you want to connect to hive you should install these packages too:
libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit libsasl2-modules libsasl2-2 sasl2-bin
and in pip you should install pyhive and thrift_sasl

Beware that in my experience working with SparkSQL using thrift server you should use hive://addr:port(default: 10000) and SQL Lab couldn't discover tables correctly.

[hieast]

how to add user: root:root to in docker-compose?
I am new to docker and don't understand where to add the user, in the docker-compose command-line or the docker-compose.yml file?
thanks.

[ali-bahjati]

In docker-compose.yml in superset service with the same indention as volumes: add user: root:root

[forbiddenvoid]

There are a couple of other docker issues that need to be addressed related to the Flask AppBuilder CLI update. But, there's not much to do to create a PR that makes the docker instructions actually functional:

• adding gevent 1.4.0 to the requirements.txt file
• adding a root:root user to the superset service in docker-compose.yml
• correcting the bash instructions for initializing the examples
• adding the FLASK_APP env variable to docker-init.sh and removing the --app argument from the flask fab command.
• looks like the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md also have the --app argument as well.

More than happy to put up a PR to fix those issues.