[Koha-devel] Minimal docker images for Koha

Jonathan Druart jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org
Thu Feb 20 09:08:33 CET 2020 

in the *next* days ;)

Le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 à 08:58, Jonathan Druart
<jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> a écrit :
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> I am planning to get back to bug 22417 in the days.
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> Le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 à 04:59, <dcook at prosentient.com.au> a écrit :
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> > Exactly! I would love to see a task queue based record importer. (I keep thinking about a Koha plugin to provide a web ui for scheduling OAI-PMH harvesting, and then third-party applications that can consume from the task queue, stage the records… probably via the REST API… and then enqueue tasks to a high performance record importer worker…)
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> > Are you going to the Hackfest in Marseille? (I wanted to go this year but life is just too hectic this year, although planning to go to Kohacon in October.) A task queue could be a great Hackfest project…
> >
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> > David Cook
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> > From: Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 February 2020 12:04 AM
> > To: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> > Cc: Julian Maurice <julian.maurice at biblibre.com>; koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Minimal docker images for Koha
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> > Agreed! I think a task queue would be a huge benefit to Koha, we have so many long running batch operations.
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> > Kyle
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> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:21 PM <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:
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> > Funny I was just looking at https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15032.
> >
> > One of these days we should push forward more on queues: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22417.
> >
> > David Cook
> > Systems Librarian
> > Prosentient Systems
> > 72/330 Wattle St
> > Ultimo, NSW 2007
> > Australia
> >
> > Office: 02 9212 0899
> > Direct: 02 8005 0595
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Julian Maurice
> > Sent: Tuesday, 18 February 2020 11:11 PM
> > To: Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>
> > Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Minimal docker images for Koha
> >
> > Are you talking about these files
> > https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha/blob/master/debian/templates/apache-shared-intranet-plack.conf#L14-L21
> > ?
> >
> > I did nothing specific, so they are probably broken :)
> >
> > Le 18/02/2020 à 12:45, Kyle Hall a écrit :
> > > One other question, how does this handle scripts that Koha
> > > specifically does not execute using plack?
> > >
> > > Kyle
> > >
> > > ---
> > > http://www.kylehall.info
> > > ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public
> > > Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated
> > > Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:43 AM Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:kyle.m.hall at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     This is fantastic Julian! The only thing I can contribute that
> > >     hasn't already been said by you or David is to suggest taking a look
> > >     at MiniDeb as a base image ( https://github.com/bitnami/minideb ). I
> > >     would also suggest using quay.io <http://quay.io> to build and host
> > >     your Docker images, as it has built in security scanning. I prefer
> > >     minimal install images not for size reduction ( though it is nice ),
> > >     but for the smaller attack surface they provide. Fewer things
> > >     installed means fewer exploits available!
> > >
> > >     Kyle
> > >
> > >     ---
> > >     http://www.kylehall.info
> > >     ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com )
> > >     Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
> > >     Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
> > >
> > >
> > >     On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 12:59 PM Julian Maurice
> > >     <julian.maurice at biblibre.com <mailto:julian.maurice at biblibre.com>>
> > >     wrote:
> > >
> > >         Hi all,
> > >
> > >         I've been playing with docker lately, and I tried to build a
> > >         minimal
> > >         docker image for Koha. Here are the results.
> > >
> > >         My goals were:
> > >         * Install only required "things" to get Koha up and running, and
> > >         nothing
> > >         else (no testing or dev tools),
> > >         * No external dependencies except CPAN
> > >         * Follow Docker best practices as much as possible
> > >
> > >         The resulting images are here:
> > >         https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/julianmaurice/koha
> > >
> > >         and the Dockerfiles are here:
> > >         https://github.com/jajm/koha-docker
> > >
> > >         A few things worth mentioning:
> > >
> > >         * I tried to build the smallest image possible by using alpine
> > >         or perl
> > >         slim images at first but it was not that great, because the perl
> > >         version
> > >         shipped with those images is missing some libs, which cause
> > >         MARC::Charset to build a database of several hundreds MBs (which
> > >         is only
> > >         5MBs with a standard perl version). So I chose a more standard
> > >         image
> > >         (debian:buster) as base.
> > >
> > >         * Koha doesn't work well when running with a perl version
> > >         different than
> > >         the system perl installed in /usr/bin/perl. For example, the
> > >         updatedatabase doesn't work when called from the web installer.
> > >         This is
> > >         because Perl scripts are called directly as executable files, and
> > >         shebangs contain '/usr/bin/perl'. Same problem from
> > >         misc/translator/translate which calls tmpl_process3.pl
> > >         <http://tmpl_process3.pl>.
> > >
> > >         * I tried to make the Koha installation as self-contained as
> > >         possible.
> > >         Almost everything is installed as a non-root user in /home/koha,
> > >         including Perl dependencies.
> > >
> > >         * It doesn't need a reverse proxy such as apache or nginx. The
> > >         necessary
> > >         URL rewriting is handled in PSGI file. The container expose two
> > >         ports,
> > >         one for intranet, the other one for OPAC.
> > >
> > >         * Each Perl dependency is installed in its latest version, so
> > >         expect
> > >         things to break. I can only confirm that the webinstaller, basic
> > >         cataloguing and search/indexation work. I did not test anything
> > >         else.
> > >
> > >         * There are docker-compose.yml files in the github repository to
> > >         get
> > >         Koha running quickly with mariadb, memcached and elasticsearch.
> > >
> > >         * Zebra is not installed
> > >
> > >         * Images weigh ~1.15GB uncompressed (koha sources included)
> > >
> > >         If you made it this far, thanks for reading :)
> > >         And if you want to use these docker images, you should start by
> > >         reading
> > >         https://github.com/jajm/koha-docker/blob/master/README.md
> > >
> > >         --
> > >         Julian Maurice
> > >         BibLibre
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> > --
> > Julian Maurice
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