thejmfc (Oct 05 2023 at 10:42): thejmfc (Oct 05 2023 at 10:42):Hi @Philip Durbin .
I hope all is well. I've been tasked with creating a new instance of Dataverse.
This time around I was looking to go through the installation process by using a docker container.
Is the latest version (6 I think?) already featured in the dataverse-docker?
If not, is it possible to install the existing version and then upgrade it to the latest?
I'm not a super technical guy so I'm trying my best :)
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 10:47):Hi! What are you doing in a little under 3 hours? :grinning: https://time.is/compare/0930_05_Oct_2023_in_Boston
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 10:47):I ask because I'm happy to put this on the agenda for our weekly container meeting: https://ct.gdcc.io
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 10:50):dataverse-docker is community supported, primarily by @Slava Tykhonov . I'm not sure if it has been updated to Dataverse 6 yet or not.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 10:55):It seems to be using 5.13.allclouds from https://hub.docker.com/r/coronawhy/dataverse/tags
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 10:59):I'm not sure how upgrades work within the dataverse-docker world.
thejmfc (Oct 05 2023 at 11:05):Philip Durbin disse:
I ask because I'm happy to put this on the agenda for our weekly container meeting: https://ct.gdcc.io
I'll be glad to join you :)
I've found the link :)
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 11:08):Great!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 11:08):Is this installation for demo purposes? Or production?
thejmfc (Oct 05 2023 at 12:11):Philip Durbin disse:
Is this installation for demo purposes? Or production?
It will be for production. But at a very small scale.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 12:15):Ok, when we visited @Jin Kim and his institution they were excited about using Docker but I steered them toward a traditional install using dataverse-ansible by @Don Sizemore - https://github.com/GlobalDataverseCommunityConsortium/dataverse-ansible
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 12:16):That was in February. Not much has changed in my thinking for production installations.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 12:17):But some people like living on the edge a bit more. :grinning:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 12:17):The core team is working on container support. Our docs are here: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.0/container
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 12:18):But it's early days. Very useful for development. Not ready for production.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 12:19):I guess this is a pretty good summary: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.0/developers/containers.html
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 18:02):@thejmfc thanks for joining! Here's a recording of the container meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/rec/share/8hdCr5MXA5C0DqyKD4ZAVT68Ujbjv5M-zX2TSeyNNZWIGObFnndSFzzUkS55WUoS.S23mmocPC9w2IzMg
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 18:02):And the notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GcHeggd4A6qdKkyYaC1Q1KuYCZkm0SHHVT5aCLsje9U/edit?usp=sharing
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 05 2023 at 18:02):Please keep the questions coming!
Slava Tykhonov (Oct 13 2023 at 20:34):Hi @thejmfc , we're testing Dataverse 6 in Dataverse-docker. Coming soon! @Thomas van Erven is working on it.
Thomas van Erven (Oct 16 2023 at 05:23):Small clarification there; I'm just working directly off the dataverse repo including configbaker (but logically replicating that setup to dataverse-docker should be "simple"; just copy created files and possibly the base image for dataverse to make it war-less). What might be a bit more work is copying/replicating all the .env options that dataverse-docker supports (not just the JVM ones); I'm more of a fan of creating a base image and packaging that to become a dataverse-docker image. Ideally you want to preserve backwards compatibility in these instances.
Thomas van Erven (Oct 16 2023 at 05:24):So far I'd say the alpha image represents a stable working image, I can work from there for a port, if desired.
Oliver Bertuch (Oct 16 2023 at 05:48):It was always on the agenda that we look into transferring the itsy bitsy scripty thingies that dataverse-docker uses for configuration different aspects into the main repo. Basically: make the installer scripts much more modular, so we can better reuse them.
Oliver Bertuch (Oct 16 2023 at 05:49):(I hate that there are two different installers - maintenance in one place is much less work for everyone)
Oliver Bertuch (Oct 16 2023 at 05:50):Thomas van Erven said:
So far I'd say the alpha image represents a stable working image, I can work from there for a port, if desired.
You might want to use the develop branch based unstable for now. My PR to configure all the upload/tempfile locations just has been merged and will be of great service within containers... :wink:
Thomas van Erven (Oct 16 2023 at 05:58):Thanks for the headsup; I'll switch it over on our env. Any particular commit I might pin to?
Edit: I'll check the repo, since you've just had a merge it should be easy to identify.
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