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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon mastodon

Documentation on using the provided docker image

Open tarasis opened this issue 4 years ago • 7 comments

You nicely provide a Docker image pre preprared but there doesn't appear to be any documentation on how to run it or configure it.

The only thing I can find is this post on the Mastodon discourse asking how to configure it

https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/mastodon-docker-name-is-mastodon-latest/2494

How do we a) configure it, b) run it?

I have used docker run -it tootsuite/mastodon /bin/bash to get into the image. There is no editor in the image (neither vim or nano), so its not clear how one would edit any files. You can't install one using apt

mastodon@6e97a37aa8ce:/$ apt install nano E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

Could you please add at least a basic guide on how to configure and run the docker image. I'd be happy to then extend it, add screen shots / whatever as a pull request.

Thank you.

tarasis avatar May 05 '20 23:05 tarasis

The docker image is only provided for users who are already comfortable with using Docker-based deployments, and the only supported configuration is with docker-compose.

We recommend the bare metal deployments for all admins.

nightpool avatar May 06 '20 02:05 nightpool

@tarasis

  • I've never used the docker hub images.
  • I'm writing a docker documentation guide atm.

@nightpool boo. ;)

shleeable avatar Jun 05 '20 07:06 shleeable

Hi,

It will be super useful to provide a docker service documentation for development specific purposes.

Cheers

bamartos avatar Jul 10 '20 14:07 bamartos

@tarasis

  • I've never used the docker hub images.
  • I'm writing a docker documentation guide atm.

I completely forgot about this. I did get it working. Stupidly didn't document the steps, but can check through my command history.

tarasis avatar Jul 18 '20 13:07 tarasis

See https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/issues/778 , could be closed if nothing will be done about it.

Utopiah avatar Oct 21 '22 15:10 Utopiah

Any updates? #1035 have lots of opinion about just adding page about docker installation.

Lastorder-DC avatar Nov 22 '22 09:11 Lastorder-DC

My impression is that mastodon is an openwashed scheme to create another centralized service. Or am I jumping to conclusions too early?

danielkrajnik avatar Nov 05 '23 18:11 danielkrajnik