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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-12757:
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Done with OFBIZ-11284
> Experiment with deploying OFBiz containers to the demo sites server
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> Key: OFBIZ-12757
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-12757
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Demo
> Affects Versions: Upcoming Branch
> Reporter: Daniel Watford
> Assignee: Daniel Watford
> Priority: Trivial
>
> This ticket has been created to track and report on progress with deploying
> OFBiz to the demo server (ofbiz-vm1.apache.org) using docker containers.
> The rest of this ticket's description is an excerpt from a message sent to
> the PMC requesting server access and describing the intention behind the
> request. It is included here are it gives an overview of the experiment:
>
> ... I would like to explore the configuration of the VM and experiment with
> hosting an instance of OFBiz in a docker container.
>
> If experimentation with container based deployments of OFBiz demo sites is
> successful, I believe the project could leverage such deployments in future
> to avoid issues around the installed JDK version not being compatible with
> all current demo sites.
> h1. Proposed approach:
> * Create a branch in the ofbiz-framework repository from trunk where
> Dockerfiles and other changes to the build process needed to produce Docker
> containers for demo sites can be implemented.
> * Create one or more CNAME DNS entries, pointing to
> [ofbiz-vm1.apache.org|http://ofbiz-vm1.apache.org/], which can be used to
> access any experimental container-based demo site instances.
> * Deploy Traefik as a reverse proxy to access the experimental demo sites,
> assuming this approach does not conflict with any reverse proxy solution
> already in place on the VM - hence the need to gain access and explore the
> current server configuration.
> * Create build configuration(s) for the new branch to build the
> ofbiz-framework as a container image with pre-loaded demo data, and push the
> container image to an appropriate container repository.
> * Implement scripts at the VM to pull and deploy the latest version of the
> demo container image daily.
> h1. Items to explore/resolve:
> h2. How should we build container images?
> We should be able to use either BuildBot or GitHub Actions for this. I assume
> BuildBot is preferred since we already have builds running in that service
> and it is managed directly by the ASF.
> h2. Where should we store built container images?
> Infra have advised (via Slack) that the ASF has a space within Docker Hub and
> also has an Artifactory instance ([apache.jfrog.io|http://apache.jfrog.io/]).
> It looks like we are free to use either to host container images. I imagine
> we would want to use whichever service helps us manage the lifecycle of
> container images (e.g. expire older images).
> h2. How to create DNS entries?
> I imagine Infra will advise.
> h1. Expected benefits if experiment is successful:
> * All dependencies used by OFBiz, including the JDK, are packaged in the
> container image. We should be able to deploy different instances of OFBiz on
> the same VM without fear of JDK version clash.
> * Act as a catalyst to help the project settle on an approach to
> containerisation and further alter OFBiz to better support container
> deployments.
> * Provide an alternative deployment option for users to deploy and evaluate
> OFBiz.
> * Help committers test PRs:
> ** I often test PRs by creating a trunk container image with demo data
> loaded. From this I then create a second image, specific to the PR under
> test, which is fast to build and load since the bulk of computation and data
> processing has already been handled in the base image. Once testing is
> complete I throw away the second image and can quickly resume work from the
> base image.
> h1. Future work if experiment is successful:
> * Incorporate container build scripts into trunk.
> * Build versions of the OFBiz demo container that include plugins.
> * Start using containers for demo site deployments.
> * Promote containers as a supported deployment mechanism:
> ** Develop guidance for connecting OFBiz containers with external databases.
> ** See this GitHub repository for a setup of OFBiz with PostgreSQL:
> [danwatford/docker-postgres-ofbiz
> (github.com)|https://github.com/danwatford/docker-postgres-ofbiz]
>
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