Data Population Container

The Self-Managed Commerce Data Population tool is used to either create a new Commerce database or to update an existing Commerce database. For more information about the tool, see Data Population Overview.

The Data Population tool is run as a job; it starts, performs the required work and runs to completion then exits.

Prerequisites

The data-pop-tool container image must be built and available. For information on building container images, see Building Container Images.

Usage

The key configuration options for this job are:

Which command to run, as specified by environment variable EP_DATA_POP_TOOL_CMD. The update-db command will determine and apply only the delta of changes, while the reset-db command will start from a clean database and apply all of the changes. The reset-db command is destructive and will first erase the database and any data contained within.
Which data-set to apply to a given database, as specified by environment variable EP_COMMERCE_ENVNAME. The valid options are the names of the folders under extensions/database/ext-data/src/main/resources/environments in your team's ep-commerce Git project. Your Commerce development team can confirm the correct value to use.
The database to apply the changes to, as specified by the environment variables named like EP_DB_*
Whether files from a separate, secure encrypted Git repository should be applied, as specified by optional environment variables named like ``EP_COMMERCE_CONFIG_*`.

Scaling and Replicas

The tool is run as a job and not as a service. To avoid possible data conflicts and corruption, ensure that only one instance of the container is run against a given Commerce database at a given time.

Environment Variables

The tool is configured using container environment variables. Some environment variables must be set and some are optional. The environment variables are read and consumed by the container entrypoint script.

For a list of the supported environment variables, see the README file for your release of the containerization tools. The README for the latest release is available here.