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Simple deployment of OHIF DICOM Viewer and Dcm4chee within Kubernetes

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Project Description

The aim of this project is to provide a simple environment in which a PACS (Dcm4chee) and the OHIF Dicom Viewer interact with each other. The whole system should be build of Docker containers inside an Kubernetes cluster.

Objective

  1. Working Kubernetes deployment files for all components.
  2. OHIF <-> PACS communication: Show dicoms from the pacs in OHIF
  3. User authentication
  4. A package for easy installation

Approach and Plan

  1. Setup Minikube with infrastructure components (Calico,Traefik…)
  2. Deploy OHIF and DCM4CHEe
  3. Add authentication with Keycloak and Security Proxy
  4. Create Helm chart for easy installation
  5. Testing

Progress and Next Steps

  1. Andrey attempted to reproduce the minikube based setup from Erik, unsuccessfully:

I’ve been working on this on and off, but so far with limited success. It seems like the minikube thing is not quite stable. The first time I went through the steps, I was able to get all the way to the step to start “minikube dashboard”, and indeed could see “pods going live” slowly, but at some point dashboard stopped responding, and attempts to restart it didn’t work (nothing happening when trying “minikube dashboard” from the console).

Then I tried to restart minikube, and got error:

Machine exists, restarting cluster components...
E0111 17:27:45.646056    4826 start.go:349] Error restarting cluster:
restarting kube-proxy: updating configmap: Put
https://192.168.99.100:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps/kube-proxy:
http2: server sent GOAWAY and closed the connection; LastStreamID=5,
ErrCode=NO_ERROR, debug=""; some request body already written
================================================================================
An error has occurred. Would you like to opt in to sending anonymized crash
information to minikube to help prevent future errors?
To opt out of these messages, run the command:
minikube config set WantReportErrorPrompt false
================================================================================

I then tried to restart it the next day, and restart worked, but when I did “kubectl apply”, I got a bunch of those below:

$ kubectl apply -f ./
service "crowds-cure-cancer-service" unchanged
deployment.apps "crowds-cure-cancer" unchanged
service "dcm4chee-service" unchanged
deployment.apps "dcm4chee" unchanged
deployment.extensions "default-http-backend" created
service "default-http-backend" created
service "elasticsearch-service" unchanged
deployment.apps "elasticsearch" unchanged
namespace "ingress-nginx" configured
service "ingress-nginx" unchanged
service "keycloak-proxy-kibana-service" unchanged
Error from server (Timeout): error when retrieving current configuration of:
&{0xc420193080 0xc4202d5340 default keycloak-proxy-kibana
keycloak-proxy-kibana.yaml 0xc4200983c0  false}
from server for: "keycloak-proxy-kibana.yaml": the server was unable
to return a response in the time allotted, but may still be processing
the request (get deployments.apps keycloak-proxy-kibana)
Error from server (Timeout): error when retrieving current configuration of:
&{0xc420090840 0xc420354fc0 default keycloak-service keycloak.yaml
0xc420bb0668  false}
from server for: "keycloak.yaml": the server was unable to return a
response in the time allotted, but may still be processing the request
(get services keycloak-service)
error when retrieving current configuration of:
&{0xc420090300 0xc420415dc0 default keycloak keycloak.yaml 0xc420bb0038  false}
from server for: "keycloak.yaml": Get
https://192.168.99.100:8443/apis/apps/v1beta1/namespaces/default/deployments/keycloak:
dial tcp 192.168.99.100:8443: getsockopt: connection refused

and again “minikube dashboard” has no effect. Does this mean minikube died?

Am I missing something basic in the setup or steps, or is minikube an experimental thing that is not really intended to run on a mac? What platform did you use to test those steps? I am on macOS 10.14.2.

Status of the project

Project repo and information

You can find the project deployment in a GitHub Repo

Basic steps of installation:

1) Get Minikube and all dependencies running: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/

2) Go in the repository cd /deployment kubectl apply -f ./*

3) Watch kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -> all pods should be in the “running” state. This could take some time - don’t worry if something is crashing - it will be restarted automatically..

4) Go to https://192.168.99.100:30443/ You should see the the login-page. The default credentials are:

You can change all passwords with the Keycloak management: https://192.168.99.100:30033/auth

How to use?

The components have the the following urls: 1) OHIF: https://192.168.99.100:30443/ (root) 2) DCM4CHe https://192.168.99.100:30443/dcm4chee-arc/ui2 3) Keycloak: https://192.168.99.100:30033/auth 4) Dicom receiver port is 192.168.99.100:31112 5) All data is stored inside the minikube vm (/data_deployment)

To push an example image to DCM4CHE with the dcm4che-tools docker container: sudo docker run --rm --network=host dcm4che/dcm4che-tools:5.15.1 storescu -cDCM4CHEE@192.168.99.100:31112 /opt/dcm4che/etc/testdata/dicom

Further steps

Background and References

Info websites:

OHIF Dicom Viewer DCM4Chee Keycloak Security Proxy

Kubernetes Minikube Helm