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[didierfranc]

It should be good to have a Dockerfile here to have an automated image on docker hub from the official Parse-Server repo !

[gnz00]

It's bad practice to bake the environment variables into the image. I think @flovilmart is working on a CLI, which would make sense to use as the ENTRYPOINT.

[flovilmart]

I'm effectively working on some CLI system and also support for multiple apps and cloud code instances.
That is quite a big PR, as Cloud Code needed to run in subprocess to have proper isolation.

As a good side effect, we now have automated hooks registration upon declaration :)
The docker file should have

COPY ./config.json config.json
RUN npm start -- --config ./config.json

[gnz00]

@flovilmart I'd say even doing a COPY of a secrets file into the image would be risky. You should b
build the image and then supply the secrets during docker run. I think it'd be cool if the Dockerfile used a CLI:

ENTRYPOINT ['bin/cli']
# Default CMD
CMD ['start', '--config default.json']

You can then pass commands to the image on dockerhub, i.e.

// Pass in config as environment variables
docker run parse-server:latest start -ddatabaseURI=mongodb://databasehost.com/12345

// Load config from S3 bucket
docker run parse-server:latest start --config s3://mybucket.amazons3.com/configs/1.json?signature=XXX

// Pass configs as JSON string
docker run parse-server:latest start --config "{appId: 12345, databaseURI: mongodb://databasehost.com/12345'}"

// Mount configs from local
docker run -v /configs:/var/app/configs/ parse-server:latest start --config /var/app/configs/main.json

Could launch an instance of the server with 1 line. If you're feeling ambitious, the CLI could also manage installing/registering Parse modules, similar to how the Ember CLI does.

[flovilmart]

@mysale01, I'm pretty new to docker, and yes copy the config.json is not possible as for the base image as it's not there :)

As of today, the base CLI is there on master under bin/parse-server with the support of environment.

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@didierfranc updated the pull request.

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@didierfranc updated the pull request.

[gfosco]

Can we create a contrib/ folder and move this in there (and update it to work from the subfolder)? Supportive of the idea, but not sure we want to commit to supporting it / testing it / ensuring it doesn't break in the future.

[gnz00]

Docker files have to be run at the project root because only subdirectories
are included in the docker context. I don't think this is production worthy
at the moment, the environment variables need to be removed. It should
essentially just be a 3 line file to run NPM install and have a default
command like "forever bin/server".

On Friday, February 12, 2016, Fosco Marotto [email protected]
wrote:

Can we create a contrib/ folder and move this in there (and update it to
work from the subfolder)? Supportive of the idea, but not sure we want to
commit to supporting it / testing it / ensuring it doesn't break in the
future.

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[flovilmart]

👍 @maysale01

[gfosco]

In that case, we'll close this. If there's use in having a simpler one, let us know.