Building a docker image.

Author: dashohoxha

Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+### This file can be used to build a docker image like this:
+###   docker build --tag='btr_client' .
+### It can also be used for automated builds in Docker Hub
+### (see https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerrepos/#automated-builds)
+
+FROM ubuntu:14.04
+
+### Install packages first, in order to take advantage
+### of caching features of `docker build`.
+COPY install/scripts/packages-and-software.sh /tmp/
+RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive /tmp/packages-and-software.sh
+
+### Copy the source code and run the installer.
+COPY . /usr/local/src/btr_client/
+ENV code_dir /usr/local/src/btr_client
+WORKDIR /usr/local/src/btr_client/
+RUN ["install/install-container.sh", "install/settings.sh"]
+
+### Set the default command to run in the container.
+CMD ["/usr/bin/supervisord", "-c", "/etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf", "--nodaemon"]
+

README.org

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Drupal installation profile for B-Translator Client.
   /etc/init.d/chroot-bcl stop
   #+END_EXAMPLE
 
+
 * Installation in a docker container
 
   This is almost the same as the installation above, except that
@@ -43,6 +44,22 @@ Drupal installation profile for B-Translator Client.
   docker.io stop bcl
   #+END_EXAMPLE
 
+  Compared to the installation with chroot, docker has the advantage
+  that it is platform independent (the host system does not have to be
+  Ubuntu or Debian).
+
+
+* Building with docker
+
+  Another way is to use the command =docker build= to build an image
+  and then =docker run= to create a container from this image:
+  #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
+  vim btr_client/install/settings.sh
+  docker.io build --tag=btr_client btr_client/
+  docker.io run -d --name=bcl --hostname=example.org \
+                -p 80:80 -p 443:443 btr_client
+  #+END_EXAMPLE
+
 
 * What is B-Translator
 

install/install-and-config.sh

@@ -5,17 +5,15 @@ sed -i /etc/hosts \
     -e "/^127.0.0.1/c 127.0.0.1 example.org localhost"
 hostname example.org
 
-### export drupal_dir
-export drupal_dir=/var/www/bcl
-export drush="drush --root=$drupal_dir"
-
 ### go to the directory of scripts
 cd $code_dir/install/scripts/
 
 ### additional packages and software
 ./packages-and-software.sh
 
 ### make and install the drupal profile 'btr_client'
+export drupal_dir=/var/www/bcl
+export drush="drush --root=$drupal_dir"
 ./drupal-make-and-install.sh
 
 ### additional configurations related to drupal

install/scripts/packages-and-software.sh

@@ -1,21 +1,27 @@
 #!/bin/bash -x
 
+### if packages have been already installed, don't do it again
+if test -f /tmp/packages-installed
+then
+    exit 0
+else
+    touch /tmp/packages-installed
+fi
+
 ### upgrade packages
 apt-get update
 apt-get -y upgrade
 
-install='apt-get -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install'
-
 ### install localization
-$install language-pack-en
+apt-get -y install language-pack-en
 update-locale
 
 ### install other needed packages
-$install aptitude tasksel vim nano psmisc cron supervisor
-$install mysql-server ssmtp memcached php5-memcached \
+apt-get -y install aptitude tasksel vim nano psmisc cron supervisor
+apt-get -y install mysql-server ssmtp memcached php5-memcached \
         php5-mysql php5-gd php-db php5-dev php-pear php5-curl php-apc \
         make ssl-cert gawk unzip wget curl diffutils phpmyadmin git ruby
-$install screen logwatch
+apt-get -y install screen logwatch
 initctl reload-configuration
 
 ### install hub: http://hub.github.com/
@@ -24,7 +30,7 @@ chmod +x /bin/hub
 
 ### install twitter cli client
 ### see also: http://xmodulo.com/2013/12/access-twitter-command-line-linux.html
-$install ruby-dev
+apt-get -y install ruby-dev
 gem install t
 
 ### phpmyadmin will install apache2 and start it
@@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ gem install t
 update-rc.d apache2 disable
 
 ### install nginx and php5-fpm
-$install nginx nginx-common nginx-full php5-fpm
+apt-get -y install nginx nginx-common nginx-full php5-fpm
 
 ### There is some problem with php-pear in 14.04
 ### See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/451953/php-pear-is-not-working-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-14-04