using Docker

elmartus

Is it possible to use docker in opalstack? Especially for python/django
I imagine it is done via a proxy port app. Any tutorial/tips is very welcome

sean

We don't support containers like Docker at this time, but I'll make a note of your interest in having that feature.

In the meantime, it's pretty easy to spin up a Django app using the one-click Django install in our dashboard :-)

elmartus

thanks!
Disclaimer: I never really used docker before. But it seems that it would remove a lot of load in downloading/installing/configuring packages and setting things up, both on your end and mine.

Like: I had to download and install redis, pycrypto, wkhtmltopdf, set up cron tasks, run redis, celery & monit.
Maybe all this could be bundled up with the django app in a docker container and ready to go.

sean

elmartus So what you're looking for is the convenience that docker provides, but not necessarily docker itself?

If that's correct then that lines up nicely with some ideas we're considering for a future update :-)

kurt

sean Where can I sign up for updates on this topic? I'm halfway through moving everything over from WebFaction before they turn off the lights this week. In many cases, moving just means copying files over, but not getting stuff up and running yet. I have a bunch of fun stuff running on WF, including Erlang, couchdb, redis and more. Much of that was a pain to set up on WF. It'd be great if OpalStack figured out a way to make those installs easier!

timblack1

Perhaps rootless Podman could work on OpalStack.

sean

kurt you can follow this post, and I'm sure we'll make some noise on twitter etc if we ever do containers.

edit: sorry, don't mean to sound unenthusiastic. I'm just super-tired haha 🙂

jwvanderbeck

Found this thread when I searched for "Docker". I have only a dangerous level of knowledge of web apps and what not, so I tend to mostly just follow directions to spin up what I am interested in. So "docker" or "container" etc I am not sure the distinctions, but I Was hoping to setup this thing on my Opal Stack account which seems to use Docker.

https://tslaspot.com/teslamate-setup/

sean

jwvanderbeck sorry, still no docker here. If there's a manual setup process for teslamate which doesn't use docker and you need assistance with that then feel free to start a new thread for it.

turpialdev

sean this is something I would like to test if you ever add docker

https://resources.taiga.io/30min-setup/

So far, the only way to have this self hosted solution is using docker, at least according to official docs of Taiga

qu4nt

Hi! Any news about using docker in OpalStack?

sean

qu4nt nothing yet, sorry.

anjanesh

I was interested in Docker. But then I came across DigitalOcean's App Platform where we push code to our github repo and DigitalOcean automatically pulls the code by creating a container of sorts. I wish this sort of feature were available in OpalStack because it scales without thinking of adding more resources manually from our side. And am sure many customers would be interested in this feature more than setting up docker manually.

Another thing worth checking out : https://dagger.io

db122

anjanesh I would also love something like this.

I've been rolling my own github hooks on a per-project basis using a php script I grabbed from a gist on github, but it's a bit clumsy to maintain and error-prone during configuration.

rogererens

@sean: Any news or a roadmap with regard to using containers/Docker images? Would be useful for early (Proof of Concept) development and showcasing to colleagues/users.

sean

rogererens we're presently working on a new buildout of our infrastructure running on Rocky Linux v9. Rocky is one of the successors to the CentOS operating system that we're currently using. It's a much newer OS and we hope to be able to support containers in some form once we've got the platform running on it.

jason

Bump 🙂 Docker would be super cool, if we can get this to happen.

zaps

another year, another bump - any near-term hope of containers (Docker or other) ?

sean

zaps we're still working on some last-mile blockers for Rocky Linux. Once that's done we'll look into supporting containerized apps.

I don't have an ETA. I'd like to optimistically say maybe within a few months, but I've said that in the past and we're still not there.

wabbit

Adding my name to the list of people who want Docker.

Specifically, I'm trying to use EDX's Tutor.