Runnable Docker image

[hwellmann]

A self-contained Docker image or a Docker compose file for running the Belenios web server would be much appreciated.

Building an image from sources using completely unknown technologies is too much of an effort for running an evaluation of a software system.

Could it be as simple as adding a missing entrypoint to the glondu/beleniosbase image?

[albanbruder]

Sadly that is not that easy. The base image does not contain a build of the belenios-server (only the basic opam bootstrap stuff). For the student council elections at our university we created a basic docker setup which could serve as an inspiration how one could setup a docker build cycle (just ignore the customizations for now).

You can try it our with the following docker-compose.yml:

version: "3"

services:
  belenios:
    image: registry.gitlab.com/bauhaus/belenios:1.15
    environment:
      - DOMAIN=localhost
      - MAIL_FROM=admin@example.org
      - MAIL_RETURN_PATH=admin@example.org
      - MAIL_HOST=smtp.example.org
      - MAIL_USER=admin
      - MAIL_PASSWORD=password
      - MAIL_STARTTLS=yes
      - CONTACT=admin@example.org
      - GDPR_POLICY=https://www.belenios.org/gdpr.html
      - AUTH_DEMO_NAME=dummy
      - AUTH_DEMO_PROTO=dummy
      - AUTH_DEMO2_NAME=dummy
      - AUTH_DEMO2_PROTO=dummy
      - AUTH_DEMO2_EXPORT=1
    volumes:
      - belenios:/var/belenios
    ports:
      - 8001:8001

volumes:
  belenios:

See the README for an explanation of the environment variables.

Please note that as our election is over this will probably not be maintained and I do no recommend to use it in production. But I would be happy to help integrating a similar setup into Belenios.

[Jean-Baptiste-Lasselle]

Hi @hwellmann @albanbruder ,

s a devops and architect, I do understand your points obviously. This is why I began months ago working on a distribution of Belenios :

• stripping out everything, but the belenios-tool executable,
• making a REST API on top of the belenios-tool executable, with REST Endpoint allowing to run belenios-tool commands
• using the NodeJS TypeScript Loopback IBM Open Source Framework.
• all will be Licensed under Affero GPL v3 (to forbid any poissibility for anyone to try and make money with this software) : Will because all license setup mmight not be properly setup yet
• I am not staisfied of the fact that this project belongs to me as a person : I am there opened to any discussion on the topic, even to hand out property of it all, to @glondu team, when it is worth. But keeping contributing to it.

I am currently working on fixing the Belenios build from source see https://github.com/glondu/belenios/issues/35

And the project is here : https://github.com/beleni8s

If you would like us to work together, there is plenty of work to do :)

[KiaraGrouwstra]

looks like there's been progress on this at https://gitlab.inria.fr/belenios/belenios/

[agoetschm]

Hi @hwellmann,

This is coming a bit late, but maybe it can still be useful. I added a Dockerfile that allows to run a demo instance of Belenios. See this page for some documentation.