FR: More details about how to use prebuilt pockebase binary?

[ankushg]

I'm a bit confused about how to use this if we don't really care to modify and compile a custom pocketbase binary

The backend folder just says to copy the pocketbase binary into the backend folder.

But is that all we need to do?

It seems like the top-level docker-compose setup calls the Dockerfile in backend, but backend/Dockerfile always recompiles from source.

Is it possible to add a ARG prebuilt_pocketbase_version to backend/Dockerfile that downloads that specific version of the binary instead of compiling it? Then we could modify the docker-compose.override.yaml to supply that.

[jkdoshi]

Thank you for @ankushg for helping improve this project. And sorry for not documenting this correctly. I was assuming that people won't be using docker-compose when using the prebuilt binary.

Here's your solution:

Change the pb section of the docker-compose.yml like this:

...
  pb:
    # build: backend
    # image: pocketbase-custom
    image: alpine:latest
    entrypoint: /app/pocketbase
...

Notable changes above from the original:

• build is commented out
• image changed from pocketbase-custom to alpine:latest
• entrypoint changed from /pocketbase to /app/pocketbase

Please try it and let me know. Reopen the issue if still having problems.