hub.docker.com/r/tiredofit/freepbx

Introduction

This will build a container for FreePBX - A Voice over IP manager for Asterisk. Upon starting this image it will give you a turn-key PBX system for SIP calling.

• Latest release FreePBX 15
• Latest release Asterisk 17
• Choice of running embedded database or modifies to support external MariaDB Database and only require one DB.
• Supports data persistence
• Fail2Ban installed to block brute force attacks
• Debian Buster base w/ Apache2
• NodeJS 10.x
• Automatically installs User Control Panel and displays at first page
• Option to Install Flash Operator Panel 2
• Customizable FOP and Admin URLs

This container uses tiredofit/debian:buster as a base.

If you are presently running this image when it utilized FreePBX 14 and Asterisk 14 and can no longer use your image, please see this post

Changelog

Authors

• Dave Conroy

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Authors
• Table of Contents
• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • Quick Start
• Configuration
  • Data-Volumes
  • Environment Variables
  • Networking
• Maintenance
  • Shell Access
• References

Prerequisites

This image assumes that you are using a reverse proxy such as jwilder/nginx-proxy and optionally the Let's Encrypt Proxy Companion @ https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion in order to serve your pages. However, it will run just fine on it's own if you map appropriate ports.

You will also need an external MySQL/MariaDB container, although it can use an internally provided service (not recommended).

Installation

Automated builds of the image are available on Docker Hub and is the recommended method of installation.

docker pull tiredofit/freepbx:(imagetag)

The following image tags are available:

• 15 - Asterisk 17, Freepbx 15 - Debian Buster (latest build)
• 14 - Asterisk 14, Freepbx 14 - Debian Stretch (latest build)
• latest - Asterisk 17, Freepbx 15 - Debian Buster (Same as 15)

You can also visit the image tags section on Docker hub to pull a version that follows the CHANGELOG.

Quick Start

• The quickest way to get started is using docker-compose. See the example's folder for a working docker-compose.yml that can be modified for development or production use.

• Set various environment variables to understand the capabilities of this image.

• Map persistent storage for access to configuration and data files for backup.

• Make networking ports available for public access if necessary

The first boot can take from 3 minutes - 30 minutes depending on your internet connection as there is a considerable amount of downloading to do!

Login to the web server's admin URL (default /admin) and enter in your admin username, admin password, and email address and start configuring the system!

Configuration

Data-Volumes

The container supports data persistence and during Dockerfile build creates symbolic links for /var/lib/asterisk, /var/spool/asterisk, /home/asterisk, and /etc/asterisk. Upon startup configuration files are copied and generated to support portability.

The following directories are used for configure and can be mapped for persistent storage.

Environment Variables

Along with the environment variables from the Base image, below is the complete list of available options that can be used to customize your installation.

ADMIN_DIRECTORY and FOP_DIRECTORY may not work correctly if WEBROOT is changed or UCP_FIRST=FALSE

If setting ENABLE_VM_TRANSCRIBE=TRUE you will need to change the mailcmd in Freepbx voicemail settings to /usr/bin/watson-transcription and set the API Key.

Networking

The following ports are exposed.

Fail2Ban

• For fail2ban rules to kickin, the security log level needs to be enable for asterisk full log file. This can be done from the Settings > Log File Settings > Log files.

Maintenance

• There seems to be a problem with the CDR Module when updating where it refuses to update when using an external DB Server. If that happens, simply enter the container (as shown below) and execute upgrade-cdr, which will download the latest CDR module, apply a tweak, install, and reload the system for you.

Known Bugs

• When installing Parking Lot or Feature Codes you sometimes get SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'helptext' at row 1. To resolve login to your SQL server and issue this statement: alter table featurecodes modify column helptext varchar(500);
• If you find yourself needing to update the framework or core modules and experience issues, enter the container and run upgrade-core which will truncate the column and auto upgrade the core and framework modules.

Shell Access

For debugging and maintenance purposes you may want access the containers shell.

docker exec -it (whatever your container name is e.g. freepbx) bash

References

• https://freepbx.org/