Re: trying to run the Roundup docker image

Hi Tonu:

In message <CABDFm8j68_xxoRx6pur_m65Jh58NELjcJrXuc4N85amMbisGVQ@mail.gmail.com>
,
Tonu Mikk writes:
>Great, this helps a lot! I was able to run the demo tracker by changing the
>line to run the following:
>docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:8917:8080 --name roundup_demo -v
>C://users/tmikk/Documents/roundup-demo/usr/src/app/tracker

Are you missing a : between /roundup-demo and /usr?

>rounduptracker/roundup:latest demo
>
>I am not sure though how to run the image on Windows so that I could
>configure my own tracker.

Just to answer the question for others, you can reconfigure the demo
tracker's config.ini changing the web setting and anything else you
want to change.

If you want to make it accessible under the name "my_tracker" at
https://..../my_tracker you run:

   docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:8917:8080 --name roundup_demo -v
    C://users/tmikk/Documents/roundup-demo:/usr/src/app/tracker
    rounduptracker/roundup:latest my_tracker=tracker/demo

(You could also change the directory name from demo if you wish.)

If the argument after the docker image is not one of the special
command words:

 demo

 shell

or

 admin

the docker container starts roundup-server and passes all the
arguments after the docker image specification to roundup-server.

If there are no arguments it uses 'issue=tracker' and assumes that the
tracker home directory is the directory specified with -v. (With demo,
the tracker home is placed in a subdirectory of the directory
specified with -v.)

The proper argument is kind of hinted at in the section:

  Arguments for roundup-server

  Once you have initialized your tracker, any arguments placed at the
  end of the docker run command are passed to the
  roundup-server. These arguments replace the default arguments of
  issues=tracker.

under:

  https://roundup-tracker.org/docs/installation.html#running-your-container

Would it have helped you if I included a full docker command line in
that section?

>But I think I will leave it at that for now. I
>probably won't be using a Docker container to run Roundup.

Fair enough. I don't know how stable docker is on Windows.

>I also looked into installing Docker on RedHat 7, but wasn't successful.
>Followed a couple of guides, but didn't get it to work.

That's sort of what I expected. RedHat 7 is on its last legs at this
point.

>I will try using the Postgresql backend on RedHat 7 if I can get the
>libraries to work.

If you are using PostgreSQL, make sure that you either export/dump the
database or follow the PostgreSQL directions on executing a proper
point-in-time backup of the disk files. I have had a couple of people
who were just backing up the PostgreSQL files on a busy tracker
without properly configuring/notifying PostgreSQL. They found out the
hard way that they didn't really have recent backups of the data 8-(.

SQLite has the same concerns over getting a consistent backup. But it
appears to be more resilient when you backup the database file by
copying.

Have a great week.

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John Rouillard
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