Posted by
Daniel Watford on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Community-Days-November-2020-tp4761855p4762207.html
Hi Hans,
It would be great to get images pushed to docker hub.
I imagine in the first instance we can get regular trunk builds pushed,
using Derby with demo data loaded. This would make local testing a bit
easier for interested parties.
Next I would like to see specialised docker images with various database
drivers already loaded (assuming there are no license issues with
distribution) along with docker-compose configurations to couple an ofbiz
instance with a DBMS.
The docker-compose configurations might include a method of bind mounting
in configuration files and template directories so that users will have an
upgrade path without losing any local configuration and customisations
(e.g. invoice templates). We would need to consider backup and restore
mechanisms too. I would also suggest using a reverse-proxy, such as
Traefik, to handle HTTPS and certificate renewal with Lets Encrypt. I'm not
sure where we would store these configurations, though. Perhaps in a tools
sub-folder on the ofbiz-framework repo?
Eugen mentioned Kubernetes. I haven't worked with Kubernetes but understand
that it can handle the networking aspects such as HTTPS and reverse-proxy
for us out of the box, so might be worth considering over docker-compose. I
imagine tool choice will depend on the community's experience. If
Kubernetes is considered a progression from compose, perhaps we could start
with docker-compose and move on from there in the future.
I would expect creating and publishing of images to be driven by the same
process as regular releases. I assume this is driven by
ofbiz's continuous integration infrastructure so I'd need a better
understanding of how that all works to be able to better contribute.
I'm not a PMC member, so probably better not to hand the docker hub
credentials to me at the moment. I'd expect the CI infrastructure to be
able to store secrets for use by the docker image publication process, so
perhaps better to store credentials there for now.
Thanks,
Dan.
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 00:58, Hans Bakker <
[hidden email]>
wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I started a similar activity about 3 years ago and created and used the
> ofbiz account on hub.docker.com.
>
> if you are ready to start an official ofbiz image there, i can hand over
> the account to you or anybody within the PMC,
>
> regards,
>
> Hans Bakker
> antwebsystems.com
>
> On 11/30/20 5:23 AM, Daniel Watford wrote:
> > Hi Eugen,
> >
> > I'm very interested in running Ofbiz in Docker and have a few experiments
> > underway.
> >
> > Please see a recent message on the dev mailing list with a branch to
> > builder docker images -
> >
>
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r40fd679818a37e113b469add51755b1097a2b02d3961e71a2cfe928d%40%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E> >
> > The approach in the branch referred to in above mailing list thread is to
> > build the currently checked out workspace. This has been particularly
> > useful for me when testing.
> >
> > Also check out
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10407 where
> > approaches making use of a Dockerfile where ofbiz sources are retrieved
> > from the repo as part of the docker build process.
> >
> > I prefer the approach of building the currently checked out environment -
> > but I'm biased :)
> >
> > Also see this docker-compose configuration which builds a docker image to
> > operate alongside a Postgres database. -
> >
https://github.com/danwatford/docker-postgres-ofbiz> >
> > To move this forward I think we need the ofbiz committers to signal a
> > preferred direction and then we can collectively focus on that and get
> > closer to publishing some official images.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 22:09, Eugen Stan <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I would like to joint he OFBiz Community days and focus on two things:
> >>
> >> - How to deploy OFBiz with Docker / Kubernetes - build a Helm chart if
> >> there is none available
> >> - Setup OFBiz in Romanian language - and document the steps on my
> website.
> >>
> >> I would love help feedback on the above.
> >> My plan is to work on his for this week.
> >>
> >> Who else is interested in the above topics?
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> --
> >> Eugen Stan
> >> +40720 898 747 / netdava.com
> >>
> >
>
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Daniel Watford