Postal: Docker support

[jadsonlourenco]

I know that is a Ruby app, but an easy way to have this app running on any system is using Docker.

[adamcooke]

We don't have any experience with Docker here but we'll certainly look into it :)

[bobinson]

May be once the installation documentation is ready, someone of us can look into it @adamcooke

[adamcooke]

That would be great. We should have the installation stuff all done by the end of the day.

[kristiandrucker]

Also it would be nice with kubernetes support. When dockerfile and the image will be out I can help with that.

[jadsonlourenco]

When the installation process is documented I can create the Docker image file, and then create to Rancher catalogue.

[joshuatalb]

Also happy to chip on on either the Docker or Kubernetes side.

[adamcooke]

Thanks everyone. The installation docs are pretty much done now. I've run through them myself on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 VM and things seem to work. Obviously, as I have quite a bit of knowledge about how it works, I'm biased so there might be something missing that I've overlooked.

If anyone wants to give it a go on Docker, that'd be great. Do ask if you have any questions or run into any problems with anything or anything missing from the docs.

[andyshinn]

Using those instructions I made an example of running Postal using Docker Compose: https://gist.github.com/andyshinn/439790630a6a8040fda4100f954d829f.

[mehdibaha]

Metabase is a 'plug-and-play' BI solution, and they seemed to have perfected the install steps:

In 2017, I think it's great to offer at least these 3 options:

• Docker Image
• Heroku deploy
• AWS deploy

What do you think 😄 ?

[ILoveYaToo]

Another container at ALinuxNinja/docker-postal as well.

For convenience, it now includes Docker Hub builds that are done every 6 hours.

[x86fantini]

i have succesfully installed Postal into a LXD/lxc container without any problems at all. In this way i can use ZFS for live migration or HA setup, real time snapshots and system portability, a-la docker but with a real and complete OS :+1:

[adamcooke]

Seems like people have created various Docker implementations here - that's great. At present, we don't want to maintain our own official docker image (because we haven't got much experience with it yet) but we will likely look to add this in the future when we've released v1.0.

[salviof]

@adamcooke já estão prontos para o Docker? vocês podem homologar o docker file de alguém, a questão maior, e que possamos ter um docker que possamos confiar... sendo oficial fica mais fácil ..

[rbashish]

Is there official docker image available for Postal?

[willpower232]

Not yet, I'm sure it will be documented when it gets to that stage. There are other priorities at the moment.