Docker container for Portfolio Performance

Summary

This is a Docker container for Portfolio Performance.

The GUI of the application is accessed through a modern web browser (no installation or configuration needed on the client side) or via any VNC client.

This container is using jlesage/baseimage-gui as baseimage.

Mount

Personal portfolio files

You have to mount /opt/portfolio/workspace to be able to get access and/or upload your Portfolio Performance files.

Configugration

You have to mount /config to persist you settings.

Environment Variables

The following public environment variables are provided by the baseimage:

Variable	Description	Default
USER_ID	ID of the user the application runs as.	1000
GROUP_ID	ID of the group the application runs as.	1000
TZ	TimeZone used by the container. Timezone can also be set by mapping /etc/localtime between the host and the container.	Etc/UTC
DISPLAY_WIDTH	Width (in pixels) of the application's window.	1920
DISPLAY_HEIGHT	Height (in pixels) of the application's window.	1080
WEB_LISTENING_PORT	Port used by the web server to serve the UI of the application. This port is used internally by the container and it is usually not required to be changed. By default, a container is created with the default bridge network, meaning that, to be accessible, each internal container port must be mapped to an external port (using the -p or --publish argument). However, if the container is created with another network type, changing the port used by the container might be useful to prevent conflict with other services/containers. NOTE: a value of -1 disables listening, meaning that the application's UI won't be accessible over HTTP/HTTPs.	5800
VNC_LISTENING_PORT	Port used by the VNC server to serve the UI of the application. This port is used internally by the container and it is usually not required to be changed. By default, a container is created with the default bridge network, meaning that, to be accessible, each internal container port must be mapped to an external port (using the -p or --publish argument). However, if the container is created with another network type, changing the port used by the container might be useful to prevent conflict with other services/containers. NOTE: a value of -1 disables listening, meaning that the application's UI won't be accessible over VNC.	5900
VNC_PASSWORD	Password needed to connect to the application's GUI. See the VNC Password section for more details.	""

User/Group IDs

When using data volumes (-v flags), permissions issues can occur between the host and the container. For example, the user within the container may not exist on the host. This could prevent the host from properly accessing files and folders on the shared volume.

To avoid any problem, you can specify the user the application should run as.

This is done by passing the user ID and group ID to the container via the USER_ID and GROUP_ID environment variables.

To find the right IDs to use, issue the following command on the host, with the user owning the data volume on the host:

id <username>

Which gives an output like this one:

uid=1000(myuser) gid=1000(myuser) groups=1000(myuser),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),46(plugdev),113(lpadmin)

The value of uid (user ID) and gid (group ID) are the ones that you should be given the container.

Docker Compose Example

version: "3"
services:
  portfolio-performance:
    image: quallenbezwinger/portfolio-performance:0.7
    container_name: portfolio
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 5800:5800
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker-volumes/pp/config:/config
      - /opt/docker-volumes/pp/workspace:/opt/portfolio/workspace
    environment:
      USER_ID: 1000
      GROUP_ID: 1000
      DISPLAY_WIDTH: 1920
      DISPLAY_HEIGHT: 1080
      TZ: "Europe/Berlin"