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OpenWISP in docker. For production usage we recommend using the ansible-openwisp2 role.
https://openwisp.io/docs/dev/docker/
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Question - Why does the project not use standard deployment structure? #289

Closed focher closed 10 months ago

focher commented 11 months ago

Hi, as I've tried to get this project running I'm a bit curious as to how the project is designed. I run a number of containers from publicly published Docker images. In every instance, the publisher provides a docker-compose.yml, and maybe an .env configuration (but those environment variables are usually embedded directly in the docker-compose.yml).

This project seems to have been built with a lot of requirements that don't seem necessary, so I'm curious why?

  1. Ubuntu / Debian as the host system is a requirement.
  2. The setup script requires that it installs Docker, and fails if it can't (without even checking if Docker is already on the host).

I really appreciate the project, but as I'm trying to host the environment on a non Ubuntu / Debian machine all the dependencies / assumptions / requirements are requiring me to do a lot of workarounds.

I hope my questions don't offend anyone, as maybe I am ignorant as to evolving best practices.

atb00ker commented 10 months ago
  1. If I remember correctly, "Ubuntu / Debian" requirement is only for using auto-install script.
  2. Again, auto-install script tries to install docker. (However, it ideally shouldn't fail if docker is available.)

It's been a very long time since I have updated / checked that script. You can also simply use docker-compose.yml with .env file.

Checkout: https://github.com/openwisp/docker-openwisp/blob/master/docs/QUICK_SETUP.md (You don't even need to use the makefile, docker-compose up -d should do the trick.)

That said, remember the official method to install openwisp is still using ansible-openwisp, I worked on this project and lately I haven't even it any attention.

focher commented 10 months ago

Thank you very much for the explanation. I’ll investigate ansible-openwisp.