DOCKER

Assuming you have installed docker on a server, 
it is much easier to setup YBDB with the docker image at 
https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/bikebike/ybdb/ or build
a customized version from the source code at https://github.com/fspc/ybdb .

As part of Positive Spin's project to determine which software would best
fit our needs, docker demos were created from all known existing F/OSS 
community bike shop software at http://bikebike.wvcompletestreets.org .


CUSTOMIZE

If you want to build your own image to use at a Community Bike Shop,
you will most likely want to setup ssl for the http server, create 
self-signed certificates and a htpasswd file (see secure-terminals.txt), 
and edit populate.sql and database_functions.php.  These changes will
need to be reflected in the Dockerfile.

Never forget, if you make changes to any Community Bike Shop code, 
merge your changes back into the main project so that all collectives 
may benefit from the awesomeness of Free Software.


WHAT NEXT?

You will want to keep regular backups, have scripts that start/stop the container, and 
monitor the main docker process.

BACKUPS

Redundancy is great.  Save backups to at least two locations. 
Obviously, the "YB" Database is the most important thing to backup, 
and Docker makes backing up a container easy.

START/STOP SCRIPTS

Example of the standard upstart script used to start/stop bikebike docker containers:

	description "Positive O Spin's container"
	author "Jonathan Rosenbaum <gnuser@gmail.com>"
	
	start on started docker
	stop on runlevel [016]
	
	respawn
	
	exec start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/pos.pid --exec /usr/bin/docker start pos


MONITOR DOCKER PROCESS

Because docker container processes are children processes that change,
only the main docker pidfile is monitored by monit.

	check process docker 
       	with pidfile /var/run/docker.pid
       	start = "/sbin/start docker"
			stop  = "/sbin/stop docker"