obs-portal/deployment

Deploying an OpenBikeSensor Portal with Docker

Introduction

The main idea of this document is to provide an easy docker-based production-ready setup of the openbikesensor portal. It uses the the traefik proxy as a reverse proxy, which listens on port 80 and 443. Based on some labels, traefik routes the domains to the corresponding docker containers.

Before Getting Started

The guide and example configuration assumes one domain, which points to the server's IP address. This documentation uses portal.example.com as an example. The API is hosted at https://portal.example.com/api, while the main frontend is reachable at the domain root.

Steps

Clone the repo

First create a folder somewhere in your system, in the example we use /opt/openbikesensor and export it as $ROOT to more easily refer to it.

Clone the repository to $ROOT/source.

export ROOT=/opt/openbikesensor
mkdir -p $ROOT
cd $ROOT
git clone --recursive https://github.com/openbikesensor/portal source/
# ... or if you accidentally cloned non --recursive, to fix it run:
# git submodule update --init --recursive

Unles otherwise mentioned, commandlines below assume your cwd to be $ROOT

Configure traefik.toml

mkdir -p config/
cp source/deployment/examples/traefik.toml config/traefik.toml
vim config/traefik.toml

Configure your email in the config/traefik.toml. This email is uses by Let's Encrypt to send you some mails regarding your certificates.

Configure docker-compose.yaml

cp source/deployment/examples/docker-compose.yaml docker-compose.yaml
vim docker-compose.yaml

Change the domain where it occurs, such as in Host() rules.

Create a keycloak instance

Follow the official guides to create your own keycloak server:

https://www.keycloak.org/documentation

Documenting the details of this is out of scope for our project. Please make sure to configure:

• an admin account for yourself
• a realm for the portal
• a client in that realm with "Access Type" set to "confidential" and a redirect URL of this pattern: https://portal.example.com/login/redirect

Configure portal

cp source/api/config.py.example config/config.py

Then edit config/config.py to your heart's content (and matching the configuration of the keycloak). Do not forget to generate a secure secret string.

Also set PROXIES_COUNT = 1 in your config, even if that option is not included in the example file. Read the sanic docs for why this needs to be done. If your reverse proxy supports it, you can also use a forwarded secret to secure your proxy target from spoofing. This is not required if your application server does not listen on a public interface, but it is recommended anyway, if possible.

Build container and run them

docker-compose build portal
docker-compose up -d portal

Miscellaneous

Logs

To read logs, run

docker-compose logs -f

If something went wrong, you can reconfigure your config files and rerun:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

Updates

Before updating make sure that you have properly backed-up your instance so you can always roll back to a pre-update state.

Backups

To backup your instances private data you only need to backup the $ROOT folder. This should contain everything needed to start your instance again, no persistent data lives in docker containers.