http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Community-Days-November-2020-tp4761855p4762353.html
> Hi Sandeep and the folks at Hot Wax,
>
> A while back you gave a video presentation regarding Ofbiz in production
> and spoke about building docker images. I found your repo here -
>
https://github.com/sandeepkose/OFBiz-Docker>
> Have there been any further thoughts for creating docker images for ofbiz?
> Any particular problems/requirements for production usage that Hot Wax have
> found?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan.
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 07:55, Daniel Watford <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Watford
>>
>
>
> --
> Daniel Watford
>