Standalone Dockercontainer based on the install instructions

fbmac

This is a simple container, I created to be able to test Flarum without creating a VM or installing the dependencies on my laptop. It also allowed for me to see the total memory consumption with mariadb included, that with this dockerfile was around 170MB.

This container will create the myssql instance with the root password being rootpass (you have to modify the dockerfile to change it, the way it is now)

A database with the name "flarum" is created in the container.

When the web part of the installation runs, you have to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, or it will fail.

https://github.com/machado2/docker-flarum

https://hub.docker.com/r/fbmac/flarum/

VIRUXE

Why would you want Flarum as a docker container?
For me for example I just had to Google a windows setup for composer, install it, create a new folder in my xampp htdocs folder, hit Ctrl+shift+rmb, open a console, paste the install command for composer to install flarum, create a database to use the forum on and that was basically it. (Besides having to enable mod_fileinfo in php)
If one knows the intricacies with docker one can also do the above type of install.

MarekLewandywski

VIRUXE Why would you want Flarum as a docker container?

Encapsulation and automation are one of the most popular reasons for using docker, these apply to Flarum deployments too.

VIRUXE

MarekLewandywski Alright, fair point.

andreassolberg

I'm working on a Docker setup for Flarum. Here is some notes on my experiences so far.

It is fantastic that I can load the application code using composer. Thumbs up!

Issue 1: the web based installation part – in order to fully prepare a working installation before handing over to the users, I would need to automate the installation process also covering database initialization. It there was a way to initialize the database in example from a CLI that would be perfect.

The config.php file is php code, and contains ONLY config. That is perfect! It makes it very simple to load DB parameters from environment variables, or in the case of Kubernetes, secret files. Thumbs up!

Issue 2: the assets directory – it seems to me that the web based installer also builds some asset files. I need to automate the installation of these. Any reasons these things, like font-awsome, is not fetched automatically. If not available through composer, maybe use bower or similar.

The assets directory was wiped since the last time I built an image, so I now have to reinitialize the db in order to get hold on the assets directory and include that statically with the docker package until I have a solution.

I'm not sure about the rest yet, this is as far as I have come until now.

I would strongly encourage the developers to prepare the software to be more compatible with docker setups, I believe there will be an increasing number of deployments where this is wanted.

Franz

andreassolberg I would need to automate the installation process also covering database initialization. It there was a way to initialize the database in example from a CLI that would be perfect.

For one, there's the php flarum install --defaults console command. Just recently, we merged a file-based installation command, too. That's in the master branch right now.