Running Pinot in Docker

This guide will show you to run a Pinot cluster using Docker.
Get started setting up a Pinot cluster with Docker using the guide below.
Prerequisites:
Install Docker​
Configure Docker memory with the following minimum resources:
CPUs: 8
Memory: 16.00 GB
Swap: 4 GB
Disk Image size: 60 GB
The latest Pinot Docker image is published at apachepinot/pinot:latest. View a list of all published tags on Docker Hub.
Pull the latest Docker image onto your machine by running the following command:
docker pull apachepinot/pinot:latest
To pull a specific version, modify the command like below:
docker pull apachepinot/pinot:0.12.0
Set up a cluster
Once you've downloaded the Pinot Docker image, it's time to set up a cluster. There are two ways to do this.
Quick start
Pinot comes with quick start commands that launch instances of Pinot components in the same process and import pre-built datasets.
For example, the following quick start command launches Pinot with a baseball dataset pre-loaded:
docker run \
    -p 9000:9000 \
    apachepinot/pinot:0.12.0 QuickStart \
    -type batch
For a list of all available quick start commands, see Quick Start Examples.
Manual cluster
The quick start scripts launch Pinot with minimal resources. If you want to play with bigger datasets (more than a few MB), you can launch each of the Pinot components individually.
Note that these are sample configurations to be used as references. You will likely want to customize them to meet your needs for production use.
Docker
Create a Network
Create an isolated bridge network in docker
docker network create -d bridge pinot-demo
Start Zookeeper
Start Zookeeper in daemon mode. This is a single node zookeeper setup. Zookeeper is the central metadata store for Pinot and should be set up with replication for production use. For more information, see Running Replicated Zookeeper.
docker run \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-zookeeper \
    --restart always \
    -p 2181:2181 \
    -d zookeeper:3.5.6
Start Pinot Controller
Start Pinot Controller in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.
The command below expects a 4GB memory container. Tune-Xms and-Xmx if your machine doesn't have enough resources.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-controller \
    -p 9000:9000 \
    -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms1G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xloggc:gc-pinot-controller.log" \
    -d ${PINOT_IMAGE} StartController \
    -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181
Start Pinot Broker
Start Pinot Broker in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.
The command below expects a 4GB memory container. Tune-Xms and-Xmx if your machine doesn't have enough resources.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-broker \
    -p 8099:8099 \
    -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xloggc:gc-pinot-broker.log" \
    -d ${PINOT_IMAGE} StartBroker \
    -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181
Start Pinot Server
Start Pinot Server in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.
The command below expects a 16GB memory container. Tune-Xms and-Xmx if your machine doesn't have enough resources.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-server \
    -p 8098:8098 \
    -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx16G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xloggc:gc-pinot-server.log" \
    -d ${PINOT_IMAGE} StartServer \
    -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181
Start Kafka
Optionally, you can also start Kafka for setting up real-time streams. This brings up the Kafka broker on port 9092.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network pinot-demo --name=kafka \
    -e KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=pinot-zookeeper:2181/kafka \
    -e KAFKA_BROKER_ID=0 \
    -e KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME=kafka \
    -p 9092:9092 \
    -d bitnami/kafka:latest
Now all Pinot related components are started as an empty cluster.
Run the below command to check container status:
docker container ls -a
Sample Console Output
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                       COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                  NAMES
9ec20e4463fa        bitnami/kafka:latest        "start-kafka.sh"         43 minutes ago      Up 43 minutes                                                              kafka
0775f5d8d6bf        apachepinot/pinot:latest    "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   44 minutes ago      Up 44 minutes       8096-8099/tcp, 9000/tcp                                pinot-server
64c6392b2e04        apachepinot/pinot:latest    "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   44 minutes ago      Up 44 minutes       8096-8099/tcp, 9000/tcp                                pinot-broker
b6d0f2bd26a3        apachepinot/pinot:latest    "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   45 minutes ago      Up 45 minutes       8096-8099/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp                  pinot-controller
570416fc530e        zookeeper:3.5.6             "/docker-entrypoint.…"   45 minutes ago      Up 45 minutes       2888/tcp, 3888/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2181->2181/tcp, 8080/tcp   pinot-zookeeper
Docker Compose
Create a file called docker-compose.yml that contains the following:
docker-compose.yml
version: '3.7'
services:
  pinot-zookeeper:
    image: zookeeper:3.5.6
    container_name: pinot-zookeeper
    ports:
      - "2181:2181"
    environment:
      ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT: 2181
      ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME: 2000
  pinot-controller:
    image: apachepinot/pinot:0.12.0
    command: "StartController -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181"
    container_name: pinot-controller
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "9000:9000"
    environment:
      JAVA_OPTS: "-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms1G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xloggc:gc-pinot-controller.log"
    depends_on:
      - pinot-zookeeper
  pinot-broker:
    image: apachepinot/pinot:0.12.0
    command: "StartBroker -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181"
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: "pinot-broker"
    ports:
      - "8099:8099"
    environment:
      JAVA_OPTS: "-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xloggc:gc-pinot-broker.log"
    depends_on:
      - pinot-controller
  pinot-server:
    image: apachepinot/pinot:0.12.0
    command: "StartServer -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181"
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: "pinot-server"
    ports:
      - "8098:8098"
    environment:
      JAVA_OPTS: "-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx16G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -Xloggc:gc-pinot-server.log"
    depends_on:
      - pinot-broker
Run the following command to launch all the components:
docker-compose --project-name pinot-demo up
Run the below command to check the container status:
docker container ls 
Sample Console Output
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                     COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS              PORTS                                                                     NAMES
ba5cb0868350   apachepinot/pinot:0.9.3   "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   8096-8099/tcp, 9000/tcp                                                   pinot-server
698f160852f9   apachepinot/pinot:0.9.3   "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   8096-8098/tcp, 9000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8099->8099/tcp, :::8099->8099/tcp        pinot-broker
b1ba8cf60d69   apachepinot/pinot:0.9.3   "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   8096-8099/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp, :::9000->9000/tcp                  pinot-controller
54e7e114cd53   zookeeper:3.5.6           "/docker-entrypoint.…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   2888/tcp, 3888/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2181->2181/tcp, :::2181->2181/tcp, 8080/tcp   pinot-zookeeper
Once your cluster is up and running, see Exploring Pinot to learn how to run queries against the data.
If you have minikube or Docker Kubernetes installed, you can also try running the Kubernetes quick start.
Running Pinot locally
Quick Start Examples
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