gslime/akaunting

• Introduction
  • Contributing
  • Issues
• Getting started
  • Installation
  • Quickstart
  • Persistence
  • ACME certs
• Maintenance
  • Creating backups
  • Restoring backups
  • Upgrading
  • Shell Access

Introduction

Dockerfile to create a Docker container image for Akaunting.

Akaunting is a self-hosted open source accounting software.

This is based heavily on the sameersbn/docker-akaunting repository. The first key difference is that I've modified it to be based on Alpine rather than Ubuntu. The second key difference is that the Akaunting software is not actually contained in the image, rather it is bootstraped by downloading it into a writable volume the first time that the the image is run. This allows the built in updating feature of Akaunting to work even though it is running in a container.

Contributing

If you find this image useful here's how you can help:

• Send a pull request with your awesome features and bug fixes
• Help users resolve their issues.
• Support the development of this image with a donation

Issues

Before reporting your issue please try updating Docker to the latest version and check if it resolves the issue. Refer to the Docker installation guide for instructions.

SELinux users should try disabling SELinux using the command setenforce 0 to see if it resolves the issue.

If the above recommendations do not help then report your issue along with the following information:

• Output of the docker version and docker info commands
• The docker run command or docker-compose.yml used to start the image. Mask out the sensitive bits.
• Please state if you are using Boot2Docker, VirtualBox, etc.

Getting started

Installation

Automated builds of the image are available on Dockerhub and is the recommended method of installation.

docker pull gslime/akaunting

Alternatively you can build the image yourself.

docker build -t gslime/akaunting github.com/kll/docker-akaunting-alpine

Quickstart

The quickest way to start using this image is with docker-compose.

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/kll/docker-akaunting-alpine.git

Copy the example.env file to .env and then configure the settings. Set the AKAUNTING_URL value with the url from which Akaunting will be externally accessible.

Create the required named docker volumes.

docker volume create akaunting_db
docker volume create akaunting_www
docker volume create akaunting_data

Then bring everything up with docker-compose.

docker-compose up --build

Persistence

Persistence is achieved through docker volumes. They are created externally from the docker-compose file so they can be given sensible names for easy identification later. By default they will be located under the /var/lib/docker/volumes folder on your file system.

The Quickstart instructions cover creating the appropriate volumes.

ACME certs

If you already have a working Traefik reverse proxy setup, then you can connect this to it by copying the docker-compose.override.example.yml file to docker-compose.override.yml and editing it as appropriate. Installing and configuring Traefik itself is out of the scope of this repository.

Maintenance

Creating backups

The image allows users to create backups of the Akaunting installation using the app:backup:create command or the akaunting-backup-create helper script. The generated backup consists of configuration files, uploaded files and the sql database.

Before generating a backup — stop and remove the running instance.

docker stop akaunting && docker rm akaunting

Relaunch the container with the app:backup:create argument.

docker run --name akaunting -it --rm [OPTIONS] \
  gslime/akaunting:latest app:backup:create

The backup will be created in the backups/ folder of the Persistent volume. You can change the location using the AKAUNTING_BACKUPS_DIR configuration parameter.

NOTE

Backups can also be generated on a running instance using:

docker exec -it akaunting akaunting-backup-create

By default backups are held indefinitely. Using the AKAUNTING_BACKUPS_EXPIRY parameter you can configure how long (in seconds) you wish to keep the backups. For example, setting AKAUNTING_BACKUPS_EXPIRY=604800 will remove backups that are older than 7 days. Old backups are only removed when creating a new backup, never automatically.

Restoring Backups

Backups created using instructions from the Creating backups section can be restored using the app:backup:restore argument.

Before restoring a backup — stop and remove the running instance.

docker stop akaunting && docker rm akaunting

Relaunch the container with the app:backup:restore argument. Ensure you launch the container in the interactive mode -it.

docker run --name akaunting -it --rm [OPTIONS] \
  gslime/akaunting:latest app:backup:restore

A list of existing backups will be displayed. Select a backup you wish to restore.

To avoid this interaction you can specify the backup filename using the BACKUP argument to app:backup:restore, eg.

docker run --name akaunting -it --rm [OPTIONS] \
  gslime/akaunting:latest app:backup:restore BACKUP=1417624827_akaunting_backup.tar

Upgrading

To upgrade to newer releases, use the built in One-Click Update feature.

Shell Access

For debugging and maintenance purposes you may want access the containers shell. If you are using Docker version 1.3.0 or higher you can access a running containers shell by starting bash using docker exec:

docker-compose exec -it akaunting bash