Install Xray Single Node with Interactive Script

JFrog Installation & Setup Documentation
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The installer script works with all supported upgrade methods (Linux Archive, RPM, Debian and Docker Compose). It provides you an interactive way to install Xray and its dependencies.

Warning

When running the installer script for a Linux Archive installation, do not run the installer script from a symlinked folder, as this may cause the installer to fail.

Before you proceed with the installation, review the system requirements.

Xray System Requirements
Xray Node Recommendations

Use a dedicated node for Xray with no other software running to alleviate performance bottlenecks, avoid port conflicts, and avoid setting uncommon configurations.

Xray Storage Recommendations

In most cases, our recommendation is to use an SSD drive for Xray to have better performance and it is not recommended to use an NFS drive, as it is a disk I/O-intensive service, a slow NFS server can suffer from I/O bottlenecks and NFS is mostly used for storage replication.

Xray stores node-specific files, such as configuration and temporary files, to the disk. These files are exclusively used by Xray and not shared with other services. Since the local storage used for Xray services is temporary, it does not require replication between the different nodes in a multi-node/HA deployment.

Xray File Handle Allocation Limit

Use the following command to determine the current file handle allocation limit.

cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Then, set the following parameters in your /etc/security/limits.conf file to the lower of 100,000 or the file handle allocation limit determined above.

The example shows how the relevant parameters in the /etc/security/limits.conf file are set to 100000. The actual setting for your installation may be different depending file handle allocation limit in your system.

root hard nofile 100000
root soft nofile 100000
xray hard nofile 100000
xray soft nofile 100000
postgres hard nofile 100000
postgres soft nofile 100000
Operating Systems and Platform Support

The following table lists the supported operating systems and the versions.

Product

Debian

RHEL

Ubuntu

Amazon Linux

Windows Server

Artifactory

10.x, 11.x

8.x, 9.x

20.04, 22.04

Amazon Linux 2023

2016 or 2019

Xray

10.x, 11.x

8.x, 9.x

20.04, 22.04

Distribution

10.x, 11.x

8.x, 9.x

20.04, 22.04

Insight

10.x, 11.x

8.x, 9.x

20.04, 22.04

Amazon Linux 2023

Pipelines

8.x

20.04, 22.04

Amazon Linux 2023

Build nodes only

Supported Platforms

The following table lists the supported platforms.

Product

x86-64

ARM64

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Artifactory

1.19+

4.13+

Xray

1.19+

4.13+

Distribution

1.19+

4.13+

Insight

1.19+

Pipelines

1.19+

Installation on Kubernetes environments is through Helm Charts. Supported Helm version is Helm 3+.

Kubernetes Sizing Requirements

We have included YAML files with different sizing configurations for Artifactory , Xray, and Distribution in our GitHub pages. You can use these YAML files when you set up your cluster.

ARM64 Support

Starting from version 7.41.4, Artifactory supports installation on ARM64 architecture through Helm and Docker installations. You must set up an external database as the Artifactory database since Artifactory does not support the bundled database with the ARM64 installation. Artifactory installation pulls the ARM64 image automatically when you run the Helm or Docker installation on the ARM64 platform.

ARM64 support is also available for Xray, Distribution and Insight.

Database and Third-Party Applications in Xray

Every artifact and build indexed by Xray is broken down into multiple components. These components and the relationships between each other are represented in a checksum based components graph. Xray uses PostgreSQL to store and query this components graph.

Xray supports the following versions of PostgreSQL:

  • 16.x (from version 3.107)

  • 15.x (from version 3.78.9)

  • 14.x

  • 13.x (from version 3.18)

  • 12.x

Xray supports PostgreSQL 14.x and 15.x, but currently the Xray installer only bundles the binaries for PostgreSQL 13.x.

RabbitMQ is installed as part of the Xray installation for every node. In case of HA architecture, Xray uses queue mirroring between the different RabbitMQ nodes. External RabbitMQ instances are not officially supported; the recommended method of installation is to use the bundled RabbitMQ.

Xray has multiple flows, such as scanning, impact analysis, and database sync. These flows require processing completed by the different Xray microservices. Flows contain multiple steps that are completed by the Xray services. Xray uses RabbitMQ to manage these different flows and track synchronous and asynchronous communication between the microservices.

Xray also uses Erlang and DB-Util third-party applications. These packages are bundled with all Xray installers except Linux Archive. You need to use Erlang version 25.x and you can use the latest available version db-util.

Xray Network Ports

Xray uses the 8082 port by default for external communication.

Xray uses the following internal ports by default for communication with JFrog Platform microservices.

Microservice

Port

Xray Server

8000

Analysis

7000

Indexer

7002

Persist

7003

Router

HTTP: 8082, 8046, 8049

gRPC: 8047

RabbitMQ

4369, 5671, 5672, 15672, and 25672

PostgreSQL (if you use the bundled PostgreSQL database)

5432

Observability

HTTP: 8036

gRPC: 8037

Follow these steps to install the product:

  1. Extract the contents of the compressed archive and go to the extracted folder.

    tar -xvf jfrog-xray-<version>-<compose|rpm|deb>.tar.gz
cd jfrog-xray-<version>-<compose|rpm|deb>

    OS user permissions for Linux archive

    When running Xray, the installation script creates a user called xray by default, which must have run and execute permissions on the installation directory.

    We recommend that you extract the Xray download file into a directory that gives run and execute permissions to all users such as /opt.

    mv jfrog-xray-<version>-linux.tar.gz /opt/
cd /opt
tar -xf jfrog-xray-<version>-linux.tar.gz
mv jfrog-xray-<version>-linux xray
cd xray

    .env file included within the Docker-Compose archive

    The .env file is used by docker-compose and is updated during installations and upgrades.

    Some operating systems do not display dot files by default. If you make any changes to the file, remember to backup before an upgrade.

  2. Run the installer script.

    The script prompts you with a series of mandatory inputs, including the jfrogURL (custom base URL)and joinKey

    RPM or Debian

    ./install.sh

    Docker Compose

    ./config.sh

    Linux archive

    Check prerequisites for Xray in Linux Archive before running install script.

    ./install.sh --user <user name> --group <group name>
 
-h | --help                                       : [optional] display usage
-u | --user                                       : [optional] (default: xray) user which will be used to run the product, it will be created if its unavailable
-g | --group                                      : [optional] (default: xray) group which will be used to run the product, it will be created if its unavailable

  3. Validate and customize the product configuration (optional), including the third party dependencies connection details and ports.

    Warning

    Verify that a large file handle limitis specified before you start Xray.

  4. Start and manage the Xray service.

    Important

    Starting from Xray 3.8x, the stop and restart action on Xray will not be applied to RabbitMQ process. On start action of Xray, if RabbitMQ is not running, it will be started.

    If you want the script to perform stop and restart action on RabbitMQ, set shared.rabbitMq.autoStop as true in the system.yaml. This flag is not consumed in docker-compose installation.

    systemd OS

    systemctl start|stop xray.service

    systemv

    service xray start|stop

    Docker Compose

    cd jfrog-xray-<version>-compose
 
# Starting from Xray 3.8x RabbitMQ has been moved to a compose file of its own, this needs to be started before starting other services
docker-compose -p xray-rabbitmq -f docker-compose-rabbitmq.yaml up -d
 
# Starting from 3.8.x, PostgreSQL needs to be started before starting the other services.
docker-compose -p xray-postgres -f docker-compose-postgres.yaml up -d
 
docker-compose -p xray up -d
 
docker-compose -p xray ps
docker-compose -p xray down

    Linux archive

    xray/app/bin/xray.sh start|stop

    You can install and manage Xray as a service in a Linux archive installation. For more information, see start Xray section under Linux Archive Manual Installation.

  5. Access Xray from your browser at: http://<jfrogUrl>/ui/:port.

    Go to the Xray Security & Compliance tab in the Administration module in the UI.

  6. Check the Xray log.

    tail -f $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/log/console.log

    Configure log rotation of the console log

    The console.log file can grow quickly since all services write to it. For more information, see configure the log rotation.Configuring Log Rotation for Tomcat

Xray Product Configuration

After installing and before running Xray, you may set the following configurations.

You can configure all your system settings using the system.yaml file located in the $JFROG_HOME/xray /var/etc folder. For more information, see Xray System YAML.

If you don't have a System YAML file in your folder, copy the template available in the folder and name it system.yaml.

For the Helm charts, the system.yaml file is managed in the chart’s values.yaml.

Artifactory Connection Details for Xray

Xray requires a working Artifactory server and a suitable license. The Xray connection to Artifactory requires the following parameters.

  • jfrogUrl

    URL to the machine where JFrog Artifactory is deployed, or the load balancer pointing to it. It is recommended to use DNS names rather than direct IPs. For example: http://jfrog.acme.com or http://10.20.30.40:8082. Note that /artifactory context is not longer required.

    Set it in the Shared Configurations section of the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/etc/system.yamlfile.

  • join.key

    This is the "secret" key required by Artifactory for registering and authenticating the Xray server.

    You can fetch the Artifactory joinKey (join Key) from the JPD UI in the User Management | Settings | Join Key.

    Set the join.key used by your Artifactory server in the Shared Configurations section of the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/etc/system.yaml file.

Change PostgreSQL database credentials

Xray comes bundled with a PostgreSQL database out-of-the-box, which come pre-configured with the default credentials.

To change the default credentials:

# Access PostgreSQL as the Xray user adding the optional -W flag to invoke the password prompt
$ psql -d xraydb -U xray -W
  
# Securely change the password for user "xray". Enter and then retype the password at the prompt.
\password xray
  
# Verify the update was successful by logging in with the new credentials
$ psql -d xraydb -U xray -W

Set your PostgreSQL connection details in the Shared Configurations section of the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/etc/system.yaml file.

Change RabbitMQ database credentials

Xray comes pre-installed with RabbitMQ, by setting the Erlang cookie value as the RabbitMQ password for guest users.

Docker Compose

  1. Set the new password in the <MOUNT_DIR>/app/third-party/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf file.

    default_pass = <new password>

  2. Set your RabbitMQ password in the Shared Configurations section of the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/etc/system.yaml file.

  3. Restart all services.

    cd jfrog-xray-<version>-compose   
docker-compose -p xray restart
RPM/Debian

  1. Set the new password in the$JFROG_HOME/app/bin/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conffile.

    default_pass = <new password>

  2. Set your RabbitMQ password in the Shared Configurations section of the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/etc/system.yaml file.

  3. Restart all services.

    service xray restart / systemctl restart xray.service
Linux Archive

  1. Set the new password in the$JFROG_HOME/app/bin/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf file.

    default_pass = <new password>

  2. Set your RabbitMQ password in the Shared Configurations section of the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/etc/system.yaml file.

  3. Restart all services.

    xray/app/bin/xray.sh restart
Configure RabbitMQ to use FQDN for clustering

By default, RabbitMQ uses the short hostnames of other nodes in the cluster for communication. However, it be can be configured to use a fully qualified domain name (FQND) host name (a long hostname).

To configure RabbitMQ to use FQDN, follow these steps.

  1. Install Xray , but do not start the services.

  2. Modify the following files according to the installer type.

    • Docker-Compose

      In docker-compose-rabbitmq.yaml:
 
      environment:
      - RABBITMQ_USE_LONGNAME=true
 
In .env:
 
    HOST_ID=<long hostname>
    ## For secondary nodes only, provide the hostname of any of the active nodes where RabbitMQ service is running.
    #JF_SHARED_RABBITMQ_ACTIVE_NODE_NAME=<long hostname of active node>

    • Linux and Native Installers

      In JFROG_HOME/app/bin/xray.default:
 
   export RABBITMQ_USE_LONGNAME=true

    • Common Change in All Installers

      In system.yaml:
 
shared:
  node:
    id: <long hostname>
    name: <long hostname>
## For secondary nodes only, provide the hostname of any of the active nodes where RabbitMQ service is running.
#  shared:
#    rabbitMq:
#      active:
#        node:
#          name: <long hostname of active node>

  3. Start RabbitMQ and the Xray services.

Third Party Log Collector

Xray enables using an external log collector such as Sumologic or Splunk.

To adjust the permissions to allow the log collection service perform read operations on the generated log files.

  1. Add the log collection service user to the relevant group if needed (the user and group that installed and started Xray).

  2. Apply the user and group permissions as needed on the $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/log directory using:

    $ chmod -R 640 $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/log

  3. Adjust the group read inheritance permissions setgid bit using:

    $ chmod -R 2755 $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/log

    This command enables the generated log files to inherit the folder's group permissions.