Maybe I'll make this a bit more detailed later, but I'm mainly documenting it for myself.
Also I wish people would think of automated deployment when writing software FFS!
If your pretty web install is the only way to install then it is an impediment to automated deploys! (I know nodebb has a cli install, but it was behaving badly with docker anyway)
I could run it by putting in a pre-made config file, but then it would skip populating the database -____-
Anyway here are the steps that worked for me:
- Get a droplet with docker pre-installed
- The usual setting up of ssh stuff
git clone https://github.com/doppioslash/docker-builds- put the url you want in the ubuntu dir Dockerfile:
CMD url=<your url>:80 - make a repo on http://hub.docker.com, I suggest to call it
<yourname>/nodebb - on the machine you have the Dockerfile
docker build -t <yourrepo>/nodebb:ubuntu . - and then
docker push <yourrepo>/nodebb - on your droplet:
docker pull <yourrepo>/nodebb:ubuntu - also
docker pull doppioslash/redis:ubuntufor the Redis db - run the Redis image with
docker run --name <yourforum>-forum-redis -d -p 6379:6379 doppioslash/redis:ubuntu - run the nodebb image you made with
docker run --name <yourforum>-forum-nodebb --link <yourforum>-forum-redis:redis -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 4567:4567 -P -t -i <yourrepo>/nodebb:ubuntu - connect with the web installer at
:4567 - fill in everything and press install
- CTRL-C so that closes and then
docker ps -a - grab the ID of your nodebb container and
docker start <yourID> - you should now be able to connect to
<yoururl>without specifying any ports.
Hopefully that worked! If not feel free to comment or ping me on twitter.