Docker NodeBB v0.5

flex

Hello !

NodeBB

I have discovered this forum (NodeBB) and I really like it ! Because it is fast, nice and usefull.
I just seen that NodeBB is now in version 1, congrats to developpers !

Docker

I have a dedicated server and I use lot of services on it. To better separate them and because it's really more pratical to manage and to deploy, each service is running in a docker container.
So, why not doing the same thing with NodeBB ?

First problem : docker pull doesn't work

$ docker pull nodebb/docker
Using default tag: latest
Pulling repository docker.io/nodebb/docker
Tag latest not found in repository docker.io/nodebb/docker

Second problem : use the dockerfile on https://hub.docker.com/r/nodebb/docker/~/dockerfile/. Bad idea, because of :

# clone nodebb and install it
RUN cd /opt ; git clone -b v0.5.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB nodebb

Lastly : I understand why all of this, because Last pushed: 4 months ago. You juste havn't have the time to do this, you forgot, or it's just not a priority for you ? However, it can allow lot of people to install and run NodeBB in very few time !

Thank you for all the answers you can give to me

Sylwester Cyba

Please read content of this issue.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/4184

frissdiegurke

I found this within the docker forum.
So it seems to be possible to talk to the docker team about name taken issues. @julian or @psychobunny might wanna give it a try?
Especially since the nodebb user refers your product (using your domain as website) it seems quite probable for you to solve this with the docker team. At least they would be able to contact the user.

flex

@nhl.pl if I understand right, it's not the NodeBB Team who is controling the docker hub repo !

@frissdiegurke I use NodeBB with my domain name, but I don't have any problem about Someone has our company Organization name.

Sylwester Cyba

In short: core team knows about this issue and in long-term it'll be fixed.

frissdiegurke

@flex That was supposed to be a response to the github issue @nhl-pl mentioned. I should've posted a new topic, sorry for that!

Ben Lubar

I have this in my crontab:

42 * * * * cd /home/ben/.nodebb-docker.git && git fetch -p origin > /dev/null 2> /dev/null && git push --mirror > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

You can download the docker image from my repo: https://hub.docker.com/r/benlubar/nodebb/

I documented the commands needed to set up the forum for my community here, but most of them should be pretty easy to adapt for any other community. Ignore the stuff about postgres unless you're importing from a forum that used postgres.

flex

great @Ben-Lubar ! Thanks

The cron tab is for what exactly ?

Ben Lubar

@flex said:

The cron tab is for what exactly ?

It automatically updates the docker repo every hour on the :42.

qgp9

I made a docker chain of Nginx, NodeBB, Redis based on Alpine Linux for mainly developments and small standalone service.

https://github.com/qgp9/nodebb-docker-dev

I tested this on a VULTR server and it works well .

No documentations yet, but soon

qgp9

@qgp9 said:

No documentations yet, but soon

I have done this

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8201/nodebb-with-docker-full-chain-nginx-redis