Snowplow-micro help

For engineers
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I’m trying to run snowplow-micro so as to be able to create pipeline from a small blog app. I’m somewhat unfamiliar with Docker and haven’t been able to make sense of the instructions for running snowplow-micro. When I run;

docker run --mount type=bind,source=$(pwd)/example,destination=/config -p 9090:9090 snowplow/snowplow-micro:latest --collector-config /config/micro.conf --iglu /config/iglu.json

I get the error;
Error: Configuration file ./example/micro.conf does not exist
Error: Configuration file ./example/iglu.json does not exist
Try --help for more information.
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.RuntimeException: Problem while parsing arguments
at com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.micro.ConfigHelper$.parseConfig(ConfigHelper.scala:73)
at com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.micro.Main$.main(Main.scala:34)
at com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.micro.Main.main(Main.scala)

I’ve downloaded copies of the 2 config files that are missing, but am unsure where to place them so they they will run. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Hi @mcor, welcome to the Snowplow community!

You’re running the right command. The $(pwd) in the source= bit resolves to your current working directory. So if you run this command from a directory with a subdirectory in it called example with the micro.conf and iglu.json in it, the command should work ok.

~/snowplow-micro <-- run your cmd here
~/snowplow-micro/example/micro.conf
~/snowplow-micro/example/iglu.json

Then visit http://localhost:9090/micro/all to see if it works.

Let me know if it doesn’t.

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Hi Steve thanks for your help, it helped clarify what the command was doing. It seems the problem actually had something to do with how I originally downloaded the files. I had originally downloaded from GitHub using the download button. I tried deleting everything and cloning the repository from the command line. That seemed to do the trick and I was able to run the command and get the app running.

Thanks again!