docker-farnsworth

Docker repository for deploying Farnsworth

Install Docker and Docker Compose

Follow these instructions to install Docker and Docker Compose on your system of choice:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Note that most commands below require access to root in order to communicate with the Docker daemon. sudo has been added in front of commands whever appropriate.

Deploy

Bring up your Farnsworth deployment using docker-compose:

$ cp docker-compose.yml.example docker-compose.yml
$ $EDITOR docker-compose.yml
$ cp settings/house_settings.py.example settings/house_settings.py
$ $EDITOR settings/house_settings.py
$ sudo docker-compose up -d

You can then add some initial content to the site via:

$ sudo docker-compose run web /opt/apps/farnsworth/farnsworth/pre_fill.py --managers --requests --workshift

(This may take a while as it needs to build the docker images the first time)

Updates

You can pull updates from the official Farnsworth repository without restarting your container by running the following command:

$ sudo bin/update

Backups

Backups require the postgresql package, run them with the following command:

$ sudo bin/backup "backup-<house>-$(date +%F).dump"

Backups can be restored with the following command:

$ sudo bin/restore "backup-<house>-<date>.dump"

HTTPS

To enable SSL, modify your docker-compose.yml file to enable SSL and mount a volume containing the SSL keys:

web:
  ports:
    - "80:80"
    - "443:443"
...
  environment:
    - ENABLE_SSL=yes
...
  volumes:
    - keys/:/opt/apps/keys

Then create keys/public.crt and keys/private.key for your public and private key respectively.

SELinux

If your host machine is running CentOS or RHEL, or is otherwise running SELinux you will need to give docker permission to read the folders containing the settings and optionally the ssl keys.

$ sudo chcon -Rt svirt_sandbox_file_t settings keys pg_data