Forum OpenACS Development: Docker Images available

I managed to autobuild docker images for OpenACS 5.9.1 as well as 5.10 available at https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/sussdorff/openacs

They are auto generated from https://github.com/sussdorff/openacs and as Gustaf has already noted, still require e.g. Docker Secrets support.

Immediate next step though is to add the ]project-open[ packages and work through the tedious updates necessary to get it running based off OpenACS 5.10 & PG11. Contrary to Frank our goal is to provide ]project-open[ packages similar to .LRN as an addon to OpenACS as this will help decrease technical debt (in our eyes).

If you want to try it out on your own machine, downloading the docker-compose from https://github.com/sussdorff/openacs/blob/master/docker-compose.yml should do the trick (check the correct branch, master points to 5.9.1).

And please feel free to fork the github repository so we can merge your ideas an improvements into it.

Hi Malte,
That's great news!
Last year I was working with Kenneth, trying to "dockerize" OACS in a Debian 9 container. However, we had to park the project unfortunatelly.

In my research, I found ]PO['s documentation and basics sources, based on Centos.

MALTE: "Contrary to Frank our goal is to provide ]project-open[ packages similar to .LRN as an addon to OpenACS as this will help decrease technical debt (in our eyes)."

MALTE: "work through the tedious updates necessary to get it running based off OpenACS 5.10 & PG11"

I have expertise in that "tedious" task. :)
In the past, I've created scripts to install PO from scratch (using APM package) in an OACS core installation :)

Let me know if you need help and how to jump in.

MALTE: "And please feel free to fork the github repository so we can merge your ideas an improvements into it."
Doing now! ... :)

Best wishes,
I

Hi Iuri,

can you provide me with the scripts to install ]project-open[ from scratch? That would indeed be helpful, then I don't need to run off the demo files.

Best wishes
Malte

Meaning,
1. It would be great to help.
2. I had that experience in the past.
3. It will be a nice review and recycling experience about ]PO[ 5.0 data model, sources, and dependencies. I'm aware we've got substantial changes from 4 to 5.

Best wishes,
I

I updated the docker images to include rubylane json in the naviserver and use the latest checkout of oacs-5-10.

Still no secrets or docker swarm support though.

kmw@caltek$ sudo docker run -it postgres:10-alpine /bin/bash
bash-5.0# whoami
root
bash-5.0# su - postgres
b030bcb67163:~$ psql -c "show data_directory"
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
b030bcb67163:~$

volume name: openacs_db_data
located:
/var/lib/docker/volumes/openacs_db_data/_data

Hi, I'm tried this,

kmw@caltek$ sudo docker run -it postgres:10-alpine /bin/bash
bash-5.0# whoami
root
bash-5.0# su - postgres
b030bcb67163:~$ psql -c "show data_directory"
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
b030bcb67163:~$

but nothing happen here

Quick question. If you use the docker-compose.yml then both Postgres and Docker should come up and the OpenACS Database called „openacs“ with user „openacs“ should be initialized. The Root user might not have the access for your commands.

Not sure what you want to achieve though. The PGDATA is a volume, so you can store it within the docker environment and it stays with the same data even if you upgrade the Postgres Environment. This volume is „mounted“ within the Postgres container under /var/lib/postgresql/data. So depending on your *goal* I might actually help.