The Dockerfiles are now in the official repository and are automatically built in the Docker Hub Registry. You can find instructions on GitHub and the Docker Hub Registry, I will be adding documentation to the docs tomorrow so instructions will be in the docs as well.

The goal of offering the Dockerfiles is to make the installation process for NodeBB easier while still allowing an experienced Docker dev to customize the experience.

@julian that is a good idea. The default master branch will fetch the contents from the current stable branch such as v0.5.x, and the dev branch will fetch the content from the master branch, just append -dev for the development branch. They are currently building in Docker Hub Registry and should be good to go shortly

For stable:
nodebb/docker:centos
nodebb/docker:ubuntu

And for Dev:
nodebb/docker:centos-dev
nodebb/docker:ubuntu-dev

I did some looking around on the npm packages site (always a scary thought), found a couple MySQL packages that provide orm style interaction. Below are the packages I am thinking we could use to integrate mysql.

http://bookshelfjs.org - Bookshelf would provide the orm: Models
http://knexjs.org - sql builder
https://www.npmjs.org/package/mysql - the MySQL package itself

Does anyone know of better packages? Using Knex, and Bookshelf looks like we could do object oriented sql interaction.