-### About
+# Discourse Docker images
+
+## About
- [Docker](https://docker.com/) is an open source project to pack, ship and run any Linux application in a lighter weight, faster container than a traditional virtual machine.
- The templates and base image configure Discourse with the Discourse team's recommended optimal defaults.
-### Getting Started
+## Getting Started
The simplest way to get started is via the **standalone** template, which can be installed in 30 minutes or less. For detailed install instructions, see
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
-### Directory Structure
+## Directory Structure
-#### `/cids`
+### `/cids`
Contains container ids for currently running Docker containers. cids are Docker's "equivalent" of pids. Each container will have a unique git like hash.
-#### `/containers`
+### `/containers`
This directory is for container definitions for your various Discourse containers. You are in charge of this directory, it ships empty.
-#### `/samples`
+### `/samples`
Sample container definitions you may use to bootstrap your environment. You can copy templates from here into the containers directory.
-#### `/shared`
+### `/shared`
Placeholder spot for shared volumes with various Discourse containers. You may elect to store certain persistent information outside of a container, in our case we keep various logfiles and upload directory outside. This allows you to rebuild containers easily without losing important information. Keeping uploads outside of the container allows you to share them between multiple web instances.
-#### `/templates`
+### `/templates`
-[pups](https://github.com/samsaffron/pups)-managed templates you may use to bootstrap your environment.
+[pups](https://github.com/discourse/pups)-managed templates you may use to bootstrap your environment.
-#### `/image`
+### `/image`
Dockerfiles for Discourse; see [the README](image/README.md) for further details.
The Docker repository will always contain the latest built version at: https://hub.docker.com/r/discourse/base/, you should not need to build the base image.
-### Launcher
+## Launcher
The base directory contains a single bash script which is used to manage containers. You can use it to "bootstrap" a new container, enter, start, stop and destroy a container.
-```yaml
-Usage: launcher COMMAND CONFIG [--skip-prereqs]
+```
+Usage: launcher COMMAND CONFIG [--skip-prereqs] [--docker-args STRING]
Commands:
- start: Start/initialize a container
- stop: Stop a running container
- restart: Restart a container
- destroy: Stop and remove a container
- enter: Use docker exec to enter a container
- logs: Docker logs for container
- memconfig: Configure sane defaults for available RAM
- bootstrap: Bootstrap a container for the config based on a template
- rebuild: Rebuild a container (destroy old, bootstrap, start new)
+ start: Start/initialize a container
+ stop: Stop a running container
+ restart: Restart a container
+ destroy: Stop and remove a container
+ enter: Open a shell to run commands inside the container
+ logs: View the Docker logs for a container
+ bootstrap: Bootstrap a container for the config based on a template
+ run: Run the given command with the config in the context of the last bootstrapped image
+ rebuild: Rebuild a container (destroy old, bootstrap, start new)
+ cleanup: Remove all containers that have stopped for > 24 hours
+ start-cmd: Generate docker command used to start container
```
If the environment variable "SUPERVISED" is set to true, the container won't be detached, allowing a process monitoring tool to manage the restart behaviour of the container.
-### Container Configuration
+## Container Configuration
The beginning of the container definition can contain the following "special" sections:
-#### templates:
+### templates:
```yaml
templates:
- - "templates/cron.template.yml"
- - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
+ - 'templates/cron.template.yml'
+ - 'templates/postgres.template.yml'
```
This template is "composed" out of all these child templates, this allows for a very flexible configuration structure. Furthermore you may add specific hooks that extend the templates you reference.
-#### expose:
+### expose:
```yaml
expose:
- - "2222:22"
- - "127.0.0.1:20080:80"
+ - '2222:22'
+ - '127.0.0.1:20080:80'
```
Publish port 22 inside the container on port 2222 on ALL local host interfaces. In order to bind to only one interface, you may specify the host's IP address as `([<host_interface>:[host_port]])|(<host_port>):<container_port>[/udp]` as defined in the [docker port binding documentation](http://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerlinks/). To expose a port without publishing it, specify only the port number (e.g., `80`).
-
-#### volumes:
+### volumes:
```yaml
volumes:
- volume:
- host: /var/discourse/shared
- guest: /shared
-
+ host: /var/discourse/shared
+ guest: /shared
```
Expose a directory inside the host to the container.
-#### links:
+### links:
```yaml
links:
- link:
- name: postgres
- alias: postgres
+ name: postgres
+ alias: postgres
```
Links another container to the current container. This will add `--link postgres:postgres`
to the options when running the container.
-#### environment variables:
+### environment variables:
Setting environment variables to the current container.
```yaml
-# app.yml
-
env:
DISCOURSE_DB_HOST: some-host
- DISCOURSE_DB_NAME: "{{config}}_discourse"
+ DISCOURSE_DB_NAME: '{{config}}_discourse'
```
The above will add `-e DISCOURSE_DB_HOST=some-host -e DISCOURSE_DB_NAME=app_discourse` to the options when running the container.
-#### labels:
+### labels:
```yaml
-# app.yml
-
labels:
- monitor: "true"
- app_name: "{{config}}_discourse"
+ monitor: 'true'
+ app_name: '{{config}}_discourse'
```
Add labels to the current container. The above will add `--l monitor=true -l app_name=dev_discourse` to the options
when running the container
-### Upgrading Discourse
+## Upgrading Discourse
The Docker setup gives you multiple upgrade options:
1. Use the front end at http://yoursite.com/admin/upgrade to upgrade an already running image.
2. Create a new base image manually by running:
- - `./launcher rebuild my_image`
+ `./launcher rebuild my_image`
-### Single Container vs. Multiple Container
+## Single Container vs. Multiple Containers
The samples directory contains a standalone template. This template bundles all of the software required to run Discourse into a single container. The advantage is that it is easy.
If you want a multiple container setup, see the `data.yml` and `web_only.yml` templates in the samples directory. To ease this process, `launcher` will inject an env var called `DISCOURSE_HOST_IP` which will be available inside the image.
-WARNING: In a multiple container configuration, *make sure* you setup iptables or some other firewall to protect various ports (for postgres/redis).
+WARNING: In a multiple container configuration, _make sure_ you setup iptables or some other firewall to protect various ports (for postgres/redis).
On Ubuntu, install the `ufw` or `iptables-persistent` package to manage firewall rules.
-### Email
+## Email
For a Discourse instance to function properly Email must be set up. Use the `SMTP_URL` env var to set your SMTP address, see sample templates for an example. The Docker image does not contain postfix, exim or another MTA, it was omitted because it is very tricky to set up correctly.
-### Troubleshooting
+## Troubleshooting
View the container logs: `./launcher logs my_container`
```yaml
env:
- …existing entries…
- HTTP_PROXY: http://proxyserver:port/
- http_proxy: http://proxyserver:port/
- HTTPS_PROXY: http://proxyserver:port/
- https_proxy: http://proxyserver:port/
+ …existing entries…
+ HTTP_PROXY: http://proxyserver:port/
+ http_proxy: http://proxyserver:port/
+ HTTPS_PROXY: http://proxyserver:port/
+ https_proxy: http://proxyserver:port/
```
-### Security
+## Security
Directory permissions in Linux are UID/GID based, if your numeric IDs on the
host do not match the IDs in the guest, permissions will mismatch. On clean
installs you can ensure they are in sync by looking at `/etc/passwd` and
`/etc/group`, the Discourse account will have UID 1000.
-
-### Advanced topics
+## Advanced topics
- [Setting up SSL with Discourse Docker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-ssl-for-your-discourse-docker-setup/13847)
- [Multisite configuration with Docker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multisite-configuration-with-docker/14084)
- [Linking containers for a multiple container setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-containers-for-a-multiple-container-setup/20867)
- [Using Rubygems mirror to improve connection problem in China](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-rubygems-org-with-taobao-mirror-to-resolve-network-error-in-china/21988/1)
-License
-===
+## License
+
MIT
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