Best way to update the decider docker container

[nebu10uz]

Hi,

I'm not an expert in Docker and I would like to know the best way to keep my decider up to date.

I'm currently running decider as a Docker container as per your project instructions on my Ubuntu 22.04.

Thanks in advance for any help on this matter!

[damionmounts]

Hello - great question!

Present

As it stands, updates are as simple as:

sudo docker compose down
git pull
sudo docker compose up --build

• Wipe containers (keeps database volume)
• Get Git updates
• Rebuild + start containers

No sufficiently large changes have occurred just yet - so the app has been kept at '1.0.0'.
This will be incremented in the future and tags will be used to denote versions in the repo.

Future

The future holds eventual database schema changes.
These will result in the need for upgrade / migration scripts.

The plan is for this to be transparent to the user.
The app will check the database's schema on launch and upgrade if necessary, then run as normal.

Extra Commentary

If anything special is necessary for an upgrade, or if a whole rebuild process is ever needed - explicit instructions will be provided.

[nebu10uz]

Awesome, thank you!

[damionmounts]

Hey @nebu10uz !
A big update just dropped - The Kiosk.

Preface

While the database structure hasn't changed, the management of config has changed quite a bit.
We're planning to get automated DockerHub builds setup eventually, and separating code and data will help a good deal there.

TL;DR - A Solution

Current suggestion for updating is to just remake everything from scratch.

• sudo docker compose down -v would delete containers and data
• (delete and reclone the repo fresh)
• sudo docker compose build --no-cache would rebuild them and ensure no caching issues take place due to container names
• sudo docker compose up would launch the new containers

Further Discussion

Please let me know if you have any reservations about deleting the database data volume.
Aside from Mismappings, we honestly don't expect many have leveraged the content editing tools.