About

• Docker is an open source project to pack, ship and run any Linux application in a lighter weight, faster container than a traditional virtual machine.

• Docker makes it much easier to deploy a Seafile server on your servers and keep it updated.

• The base image configures Seafile with the Seafile team's recommended optimal defaults.

Getting Started

The simplest way to get started is via the samples/server.conf template, which can be installed within several minutes.

sudo git clone https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-docker.git /var/seafile/
cd /var/seafile/

sudo cp samples/server.conf bootstrap/bootstrap.conf
# Edit the options according to your use case
sudo vim bootstrap/bootstrap.conf

sudo ./launcher bootstrap
sudo ./launcher start

Now visit http://hostname or https://hostname to open Seafile Web UI.

How to use

Modify configurations

The config files are under shared/seafile/conf. You can modify the configurations according to Seafile manual

After modification, restart the docker container:

sudo ./launcher restart

Find logs

The logs are under shared/logs/seafile.

Enable debug logs of launcher

Pass -v to launcher script (for example sudo ./launcher -v rebuild would make it print more verbose information

Directory Structure

/bootstrap

This directory is for container definitions for your Seafile containers. You are in charge of this directory, it ships empty.

/samples

Sample container definitions you may use to bootstrap your environment. You can copy templates from here into the bootstrap directory.

/shared

Placeholder spot for shared volumes. You may elect to store certain persistent information outside of a container, in our case we keep various logfiles and upload directory outside. This allows you to rebuild containers easily without losing important information.

• /shared/db: This is the data directory for mysql server
• /shared/seafile: This is the directory for seafile server configuration and data.
• /shared/logs: This is the directory for logs.
  • /shared/logs/var-log: This is the directory that would be mounted as /var/log inside the container. For example, you can find the nginx logs in shared/logs/var-log/nginx/.
  • /shared/logs/seafile: This is the directory that would contain the log files of seafile server processes. For example, you can find seaf-server logs in shared/logs/seafile/seafile.log.

/templates

Various jinja2 templates used for seafile server configuration.

/image

Dockerfiles for Seafile.

The Docker repository will always contain the latest built version at: https://hub.docker.com/r/seafileltd/seafile/, you should not need to build the base image.

Launcher

The base directory contains a single bash script which is used to manage containers. You can use it to "bootstrap" a new container, enter, start, stop and destroy a container.

Usage: launcher COMMAND
Commands:
    bootstrap:  Bootstrap a container for the config based on a template
    start:      Start/initialize a container
    stop:       Stop a running container
    restart:    Restart a container
    destroy:    Stop and remove a container
    enter:      Use docker exec to enter a container
    logs:       Docker logs for container
    rebuild:    Rebuild a container (destroy old, bootstrap, start new)

If the environment variable "SUPERVISED" is set to true, the container won't be detached, allowing a process monitoring tool to manage the restart behaviour of the container.

Container Configuration

port mapping:

server.port_mappings = 80:80,443:443

Let's encrypt SSL certificate

If you set server.letsencrypt to true, the bootstrap script would request a letsencrypt-signed SSL certificate for you.

server.letsencrypt = true
server.port_mappings = 80:80,443:443

If you want to use your own SSL certificate:

• create a folder 'shared/ssl', and put your certificate and private key under the ssl directory.
• Assume your site name is "seafile.example.com", then your certificate must have the name "seafile.example.com.crt", and the private key must have the name "seafile.example.com.key".

Upgrading Seafile Server

Simple run sudo ./launcher rebuild, which would keep your seafile server up to date.

Troubleshooting

View the container logs: sudo ./launcher logs

Spawn a shell inside your container using sudo ./launcher enter. This is the most foolproof method if you have host root access.

Developing with Vagrant

If you are looking to make modifications to this repository, you can easily test out your changes before committing, using the magic of Vagrant. Install Vagrant as per the default instructions, and then run:

vagrant up

This will spawn a new Ubuntu VM, install Docker, and then await your instructions. You can then SSH into the VM with vagrant ssh, become root with sudo -i, and then you're right to go. Your live git repo is already available at /var/seafile, so you can just cd /var/seafile and then start running launcher.

Special Thanks

Lots of the design of this repo is borrowed from the excellent discourse-docker project. Thanks for their insipiration!

License

Apache