[Koha-devel] Minimal docker images for Koha

[Kyle Hall]

For static assets, you could put something like Varnish in between as well.

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On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 9:45 PM <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:

> I'd also note that in production you'd probably want to use a reverse
> proxy in the same container as Starman for performance reasons, since the
> reverse proxy will do better than Starman at serving static assets. On a
> different Perl project, I've used HTTP::Server::PSGI for development, and
> it does well with the Perl, but really struggles to provide the static
> assets. (I suppose you could run a reverse proxy in a different container
> and share files using a mounted volume but I think you'd start getting
> headaches if you tried to scale that out at all.)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf
> Of Julian Maurice
> Sent: Sunday, 1 March 2020 10:12 PM
> To: Agustin Moyano <agustinmoyano at theke.io>; Koha Devel <
> Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Minimal docker images for Koha
>
> I believe that the problems we have with Debian buster are mostly related
> to the versions of Perl modules shipped with debian packages.
> Since these Dockerfiles install all Perl modules from CPAN in their latest
> version, I think you will have the same problems with an older version of
> Debian.
>
> URL rewrite in PSGI file is handy for development, but that shouldn't be
> used in production. Indeed, a reverse proxy is still required in production
> environments.
>
> Please note that images produced by these Dockerfiles are not intended to
> be used in production. As I said in my first message, you should expect
> things to break ;)
>
> Le 01/03/2020 à 05:19, Agustin Moyano a écrit :
> > Sorry.. seems I send it only to Julian.. here goes again
> >
> > El sáb., 29 de febrero de 2020 19:15, Agustin Moyano
> > <agustinmoyano at theke.io <mailto:agustinmoyano at theke.io>> escribió:
> >
> >     Hi Julian, great work!!
> >
> >     I've also been working (interruptedly) for a couple of months on a
> >     docker version of Koha.
> >
> >     I focused on having as soon as possible a fully functional docker
> >     version of Koha, and didn't worry too much about doing things the
> >     docker way.. It's comforting to know you weren't tempted by de dark
> >     side of the force!
> >
> >     I thought of having first a production ready docker much like
> >     koha-testing-docker, and later split services into different
> >     containers. That's why I really, really loved your implementation of
> >     plack.psgi. URL rewrite in psgi brings independence day from Apache
> >     much closer! \o/.
> >
> >     Just some thoughts:
> >
> >       * Should you base your image on Debian buster? on
> >         https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian says "Note:
> >         Debian 10 (Buster) is currently not recommended or supported,
> >         work is in progress to rectify this situation."
> >       * Even if there's no need for reverse proxy, I wouldn't discard
> >         having one on a separate container.. web servers like apache or
> >         nginx deal much better with attacks than exposing the service on
> >         it's own (First hand experience with a Java/Tomcat service I
> >         made once)
> >
> > (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/209111/security-benefits
> > -of-reverse-proxying-java-tomcat-webapps-locally)
> >
> >     But overall, great job!
> >
> >     PS: If you'd like to take a peek of what I've done, here's the repo:
> >     https://gitlab.com/thekesolutions/koha-docker
> >
>
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