Deploy Seafile Server Through Docker
Recommended Server Minimums
- 2 Cores
- 2GB or more for memory.
- 1GB for swap if possible.
Steps
Firstly install docker and install install docker compose.
Create Docker Compose File
Copy and paste the following docker-compose.yml file to your server, (this is what the source was at the time of writing this tutorial)/
version: '2.0'
services:
db:
image: mariadb:10.5
container_name: seafile-mysql
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=db_dev # Requested, set the root's password of MySQL service.
- MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
volumes:
- /opt/seafile-mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql # Requested, specifies the path to MySQL data persistent store.
networks:
- seafile-net
memcached:
image: memcached:1.5.6
container_name: seafile-memcached
entrypoint: memcached -m 256
networks:
- seafile-net
seafile:
image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:latest
container_name: seafile
ports:
- "80:80"
# - "443:443" # If https is enabled, cancel the comment.
volumes:
- /opt/seafile-data:/shared # Requested, specifies the path to Seafile data persistent store.
environment:
- DB_HOST=db
- DB_ROOT_PASSWD=db_dev # Requested, the value shuold be root's password of MySQL service.
- TIME_ZONE=Etc/UTC # Optional, default is UTC. Should be uncomment and set to your local time zone.
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=me@example.com # Specifies Seafile admin user, default is 'me@example.com'.
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=asecret # Specifies Seafile admin password, default is 'asecret'.
- SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false # Whether to use https or not.
- SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=docs.seafile.com # Specifies your host name if https is enabled.
depends_on:
- db
- memcached
networks:
- seafile-net
networks:
seafile-net:
Change Settings
Now copy/paste the script below, before filling in the variables at the top of it and then executing it.
When it runs, it will automatically set a strong random password for the seafile database, and configure the admin username/password, as well as the hostname of the server. Alternatively, you can just edit the docker-compose.yml file directly.
#!/bin/bash
# Fill in the settings below. I have pre-populated with some example values.
SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL="admin@programster.org"
SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD="thisIsMyAdminLogingPassword"
SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME="seafile.programster.org"
# Generate a random password for mysql database
RANDOM_PASSWORD=`head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c16`
# set password for mysql service
SEARCH=" - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=db_dev"
REPLACE=" - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=$RANDOM_PASSWORD"
FILEPATH="docker-compose.yml"
sed -i "s;$SEARCH;$REPLACE;" $FILEPATH
# tell seafile to use the mysql password
SEARCH=" - DB_ROOT_PASSWD=db_dev"
REPLACE=" - DB_ROOT_PASSWD=$RANDOM_PASSWORD"
FILEPATH="docker-compose.yml"
sed -i "s;$SEARCH;$REPLACE;" $FILEPATH
# Set the admin password
SEARCH=" - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=asecret"
REPLACE=" - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=$SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD"
FILEPATH="docker-compose.yml"
sed -i "s;$SEARCH;$REPLACE;" $FILEPATH
# Set the admin email
SEARCH=" - SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=me@example.com"
REPLACE=" - SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=$SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL"
FILEPATH="docker-compose.yml"
sed -i "s;$SEARCH;$REPLACE;" $FILEPATH
# Set the hostname
SEARCH=" - SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=docs.seafile.com"
REPLACE=" - SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=$SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME"
FILEPATH="docker-compose.yml"
sed -i "s;$SEARCH;$REPLACE;" $FILEPATH
A Note On Volumes
By default, the docker-compose file will store your database data at: /opt/seafile-mysql/db
and your seafile application data at: /opt/seafile-data
.
If you are using a separate disk-drive for all of your data, you may wish to review/change these values.
If you don't understand anything I just said, you probably want to just continue as-is.
A Note On Versions
By default, the docker-compose file specifies to use the image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:latest
which will always use the latest image.
To prevent accidents happening later, I would advise manually changing :latest
to the latest current version number in the dockerhub registry.
E.g. at the time of writing this tutorial, it is 8.0.3
so I have manually set it to that. This way if I perform a docker pull later, I won't accidentally pulll down 9.x in the future and risk issues.
However, 8.03
might not be around when you read this, so tutorial needs to keep it set at :latest
in the documentation.
Deploy!
Run the following command to deploy
docker-compose up
If you need to deploy "silently" and not see the output and tie-up your terminal, then you can use:
docker-compose up -d
References
First published: 21st February 2021