@mschwartz Do you have any suggestions for a better NodeBB Docker image?

I see the one from ghcr.io/rez0n/nodebb:latest is v1.19.1 (latest v3.4.2)..

Thanks!

Thank you for sharing the fun fact about the history of Docker, as well as NodeBB's approach to supporting it. It's understandable that not all software was initially built with Docker compatibility in mind, so it's great to see that NodeBB has taken steps to support it (in some capacity) in response to community interest.

@PitaJ Interesting.. why this? https://hub.docker.com/r/nodebb/docker & how can your team not use Docker for development etc?? Sorry, but that's just shocking..

I've been attempting to get Node.bb to run in Docker for a while, I can't help but express my disappointment in the overall lack of documentation available for this. It's frustrating to see that there are so few resources available to help users set up and configure their Node.bb instances in a Docker environment. What's even more disheartening is the lack of help available from the community. Despite searching through forums and message boards, it's difficult to find anyone who can provide meaningful guidance on this issue.

Here's what I see when starting the container back up..

# docker-compose up
Creating network "nodebb_default" with the default driver
Creating nodebb_db ... done
Creating nodebb    ... done
Attaching to nodebb_db, nodebb
db_1      | 
db_1      | PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization
db_1      | 
db_1      | 2023-03-10 15:28:32.768 UTC [1] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 15.2 (Debian 15.2-1.pgdg110+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, 64-bit
db_1      | 2023-03-10 15:28:32.769 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
db_1      | 2023-03-10 15:28:32.769 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
db_1      | 2023-03-10 15:28:32.771 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
db_1      | 2023-03-10 15:28:32.777 UTC [29] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2023-03-10 15:28:26 UTC
db_1      | 2023-03-10 15:28:32.785 UTC [1] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
nodebb    | 2023-03-10T15:28:33.885Z [8] - info: Launching web installer on port 4567
nodebb    | 2023-03-10T15:28:39.790Z [8] - info: Web installer listening on http://0.0.0.0:4567

Hey community,

I'm having an issue with Node.BB, the forum software I'm using. Every time I restart or pull the container, it reverts back to the initial installation setup, even though I have persistent volumes defined. I can see that the postgres volume has files populated in it, but I'm not sure why this is happening.

I'm thinking that it might be a permission issue or that I'm not running the container with the proper UID/GID (user ID/group ID), which could be preventing the container from accessing the files in the persistent volume and causing it to revert back to the initial setup.

Has anyone else experienced this issue or have any ideas on how I can troubleshoot and resolve it? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

version: '3.8'

services:
  nodebb:
    image: nodebb/docker
    container_name: nodebb
    restart: always
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: production
      DATABASE_HOST: db
      DATABASE_PORT: 5432
      DATABASE_NAME: nodebb
      DATABASE_USER: nodebb
      DATABASE_PASS: ${DATABASE_PASS}
    env_file:
      - .env
    ports:
      - "4567:4567"
    depends_on:
      - db
    volumes:
      - ./nodebb_data:/var/lib/nodebb
  db:
    image: postgres
    container_name: nodebb_db
    restart: always
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: nodebb
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_DB: nodebb
    env_file:
      - .env
    volumes:
      - ./postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data