Alternatives and detailed information of docker-seafile

Seafile Server Docker container based on Ubuntu originating from here

Features

Comes with the newest seafile version at rebuild
Automatically runs upgrade scripts (when pulling a newer image) provided by seafile
Configurable to run with MySQL/MariaDB or SQLite
Auto-setup at initial run
Supports different startup modes:
- garbage_collect: Run garbage collector instead of starting server
- autorun: Default mode, setups server (if neccessary), upgrade database, then run server.
- maintenance: Only start the container. You can log into it with docker exec and work on it.

Overview

Filetree:

/seafile/
|-- ccnet
|-- conf
|-- seafile-data
`-- seahub-data
/opt/
`-- haiwen
    |-- ccnet -> /seafile/ccnet
    |-- conf -> /seafile/conf
    |-- logs
    |-- pids
    |-- seafile-data -> /seafile/seafile-data
    |-- seafile-server-5.1.3
    |-- seafile-server-latest -> seafile-server-5.1.3
    `-- seahub-data -> /seafile/seahub-data

All important data is stored under /seafile, so you should be mounting a volume there (recommended), as shown in the example configurations, or at the respective subdirectories. There are a plethora of environment variables which might be needed for your setup.

Mandatory ENV variables for auto setup

SEAFILE_NAME: Name of your Seafile installation
SEAFILE_ADDRESS: URL to your Seafile installation
SEAFILE_ADMIN: E-mail address of the Seafile admin
SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW: Password of the Seafile admin

If you want to use MySQL/MariaDB, the following variables are needed:

Mandatory ENV variables for MySQL/MariaDB

MYSQL_SERVER: Address of your MySQL server
MYSQL_USER: MySQL user Seafile should use
MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD: Password for said MySQL User Optionali:
MYSQL_PORT: Port MySQL runs on

Optional ENV variables for auto setup with MySQL/MariaDB

MYSQL_USER_HOST: Host the MySQL User is allowed from (default: '%')
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: If you haven't set up the MySQL tables by yourself, Seafile will do it for you when being provided with the MySQL root password

Optional ENV variables

MODE Use to configure what should be done when starting the image.
- autorun (default). Setup new server if necessary. Setup file permissions. Migrate database (using official seafile scripts). Garbage Collect. Start seafile server and seahub.
- run_only. Just start server. Do not garbage collect.
- maintenance. Don't start anything. Just keep the container alive so that you can login to it.
- setup_mysql. Setup new server with mysql.
- setup_sqlite. Setup new server with sqlite.
- update. Perform update step only. diagnose. Fix broken repositories (seaf-fsck). collect_garbage. Run garbage collection. This must be done while server is offline.
FILE_SERVER_ROOT Set FILE_SERVER_ROOT variable in seahub config
SERVICE_URL Set SERVICE_URL variable in seahub config

If you plan on omitting /seafile as a volume and mount the subdirectories instead, you'll need to additionally specify SEAHUB_DB_DIR which containes the subdirectory of /seafile the seahub.db file shall be put in.

There are some more variables which could be changed but have not been tested and are probably not fully functional as well. Therefore those not mentioned here. Inspect the seafile-entrypoint.sh script if you have additional needs for customization.

Example configurations

Using `docker-run`

If you want to run with sqlite:

docker run -d -e SEAFILE_NAME=Seafile \
	-e SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.com \
	-e [email protected] \
	-e SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=SuperSecretPassword \
	-v /host/os/path:/seafile \
  gronis/seafile

If you want to use MySQL:

docker run -d -e SEAFILE_NAME=Seafile \
	-e SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.com \
	-e [email protected] \
	-e SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=SuperSecretPassword \
  -e MYSQL_SERVER=seafile-db \
  -e MYSQL_USER=seafile \
  -e MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=SuperSecretDatabasePassword \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=EvenMoreSuperSecretDatabasePassword \
	-v /host/os/path:/seafile \
  gronis/seafile

Using `docker-compose`

With sqlite

version: '2'
services:
  seafile:
    image: gronis/seafile
    container_name: seafile
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./seafile-container-data:/seafile:rw
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
      - 8082:8082
    environment:
      - SEAFILE_NAME=Seafile
      - SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.com
      - [email protected]
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=SuperSecretPassword

With MySQL

version: '2'
services:
  seafile:
    image: gronis/seafile
    container_name: seafile
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - seafile-db
    links:
      - seafile-db
    volumes:
      - ./seafile-container-data:/seafile:rw
    ports:
      - 8000:8000
      - 8082:8082
    environment:
      - SEAFILE_NAME=Seafile
      - SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.com
      - [email protected]
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=SuperSecretPassword
      - MYSQL_SERVER=seafile-db
      - MYSQL_USER=seafile
      - MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=SuperSecretDatabasePassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=EvenMoreSuperSecretDatabasePassword

  seafile-db:
    image: mariadb:latest
    container_name: seafile-db
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./seafile-db-data:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=EvenMoreSuperSecretDatabasePassword

Complete HTTPS Web server

This container is intended to be run behind a reverse proxy. You can read more about that in the Seafile manual: http://manual.seafile.com/deploy/

I'll recommend to use nginx reverse proxy with automated updating process with letsencrypt. This requires you to own the domain you are using. Here is a full example, using MySQL and together with nginx reverse proxy, assuming the domain name is seafile.example.com

NOTE: Use nginx.tmpl to generate the nginx config. Here, I assume the domain name seafile.example.com but switch it out for your own domain.

version: '2'
services:
  seafile:
    image: gronis/seafile
    container_name: seafile
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - seafile-db
    links:
      - seafile-db
    volumes:
      - ./seafile-container-data:/seafile:rw
    environment:
      - VIRTUAL_HOST=seafile.example.com
      - VIRTUAL_PORT=8000
      - LETSENCRYPT_HOST=seafile.example.com
      - [email protected]
      - SEAFILE_NAME=Seafile
      - SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.com
      - [email protected]
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=SuperSecretPassword
      - SERVICE_URL=https://seafile.example.com
      - FILE_SERVER_ROOT=https://seafile.example.com/seafhttp
      - MYSQL_SERVER=seafile-db
      - MYSQL_USER=seafile
      - MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=SuperSecretDatabasePassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=EvenMoreSuperSecretDatabasePassword

  seafile-db:
    image: mariadb:latest
    container_name: seafile-db
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./seafile-db-data:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=EvenMoreSuperSecretDatabasePassword

  # Network traffic passes through nginx (as https) and then to seafile (as http)
  nginx:
    image: nginx:alpine
    container_name: nginx
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    volumes:
      - ./nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d:ro
      - ./nginx/vhost.d:/etc/nginx/vhost.d:ro
      - ./nginx/html:/usr/share/nginx/html
      - ./nginx/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro
      - ./nginx/htpasswd:/etc/nginx/htpasswd:ro

  # This container generate the nginx configuration
  nginx-gen:
    image: jwilder/docker-gen:0.7.3
    container_name: nginx-gen
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - nginx
    volumes_from:
      - nginx
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro
      - ./nginx.tmpl:/etc/docker-gen/templates/nginx.tmpl:ro
      - ./nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d:rw
    networks:
      - proxy-tier
    entrypoint: /usr/local/bin/docker-gen -notify-sighup nginx -watch -wait 5s:30s /etc/docker-gen/templates/nginx.tmpl /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

  # This container refreshes the https certificate
  letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion:
    image: nginxproxy/acme-companion
    container_name: letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - nginx
      - nginx-gen
    volumes_from:
      - nginx
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      - ./nginx/vhost.d:/etc/nginx/vhost.d:rw
      - ./nginx/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw
    environment:
      - NGINX_DOCKER_GEN_CONTAINER=nginx-gen

Since Seafile uses port 8082 to sync files, this extra config must be added to nginx to enable passthrough over the nginx proxy using https. This configuration file should be placed in /etc/nginx/vhost.d/seafile.example.com on nginx-gen (./nginx/vhost.d from the above config), to enable port 8082 to pass though the domain. It will automatically be embedded into /etc/nginx/conf/default.conf on the nginx server (see more here).

location /seafhttp {
    rewrite               ^/seafhttp(.*)$ $1 break;
    proxy_pass            http://seafile:8082;
    client_max_body_size  0;
    proxy_connect_timeout 36000s;
    proxy_read_timeout    36000s;
    proxy_send_timeout    36000s;
    send_timeout          36000s;
}

To make sure that the proxy is used to sync files instead of using port 8082, add SERVICE_URL and FILE_SERVER_ROOT environment variables to docker-compose.yaml like so:

services:
  seafile:
#   ...
    environment:
#     ...
      - SERVICE_URL=https://seafile.example.com
      - FILE_SERVER_ROOT=https://seafile.example.com/seafhttp

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