This faker application is tightly coupled to the DataHub iRODS infrastructure as described in docker-dev. It relies on the specific business logic regarding project & collection structure and uses remote procedure calls defined in irods-rule-wrapper.

Make sure that your runtime environment has:

• a running instance of the irods and ires container
• a value of USE_SAMBA=false in the irods.secrets.cfg file. This will ensure that both iRODS and dh-faker use the dropzones from the volume-bound ./docker-dev/staging-data directory.

1. Edit existing INI file or create a new INI file based on the example (config.ini).
2. Start the container with the default settings files (config.ini)

   ./rit.sh run --rm dh-faker python create_fake_data.py
   

   Start the container with a custom settings files (simple.ini)

   ./rit.sh run --rm dh-faker python create_fake_data.py simple.ini
   

3. The stdout will now print on the names of the dropzones and the fake files that are being created.
4. The end state at exit of the dh-faker container is that N amount of dropzones are being ingested by iRODS.