Moodle setup for Docker, build on Alpine Linux. The image is only +/- 70MB large.
Repository: https://github.com/erseco/alpine-moodle
- Built on the lightweight image https://github.com/erseco/alpine-php-webserver
- Very small Docker image size (+/-70MB)
- Uses PHP 8.1 for better performance, lower cpu usage & memory footprint
- Support for HA installations: php-redis, php-ldap (also with self-signed certs)
- Multi-arch support: 386, amd64, arm/v6, arm/v7, arm64, ppc64le, s390x
- Optimized for 100 concurrent users
- Optimized to only use resources when there's traffic (by using PHP-FPM's ondemand PM)
- Use of runit instead of supervisord to reduce memory footprint
- Configured cron to run as non-privileged user gliderlabs/docker-alpine#381 (comment)
- docker-compose sample with PostgreSQL
- Configuration via ENV variables
- Easily upgradable to new moodle versions
- The servers Nginx, PHP-FPM run under a non-privileged user (nobody) to make it more secure
- The logs of all the services are redirected to the output of the Docker container (visible with
docker logs -f <container name>) - Follows the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) to make it easy to understand and adjust the image to your needs
Start the Docker containers:
docker-compose up
Login on the system using the provided credentials (ENV vars)
Define the ENV variables in docker-compose.yml file
| Variable Name | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| LANG | en_US.UTF-8 | |
| LANGUAGE | en_US:en | |
| SITE_URL | http://localhost | Sets the public site url |
| SSLPROXY | false | Disable SSL proxy to avoid site loop. Ej. Cloudfare |
| DB_TYPE | pgsql | mysqli - pgsql - mariadb |
| DB_HOST | postgres | DB_HOST Ej. db container name |
| DB_PORT | 5432 | Postgres=5432 - MySQL=3306 |
| DB_NAME | moodle | |
| DB_USER | moodle | |
| DB_FETCHBUFFERSIZE | Set to 0 if using PostgresSQL poolers like PgBouncer in 'transaction' mode | |
| DB_DBHANDLEOPTIONS | false | Set to true if using PostgresSQL poolers like PgBouncer which does not support sending options |
| DB_HOST_REPLICA | Database hostname of the read-only replica database | |
| DB_PORT_REPLICA | Database port of replica, left it empty to be same as DB_PORT | |
| DB_USER_REPLICA | Database login username of replica, left it empty to be same as DB_USER | |
| DB_PASS_REPLICA | Database login password of replica, left it empty to be same as DB_PASS | |
| DB_PREFIX | mdl_ | Database prefix. WARNING: don't use numeric values or moodle won't start |
| MY_CERTIFICATES | none | Trusted LDAP certificate or chain getting through base64 encode |
| MOODLE_EMAIL | user@example.com | |
| MOODLE_LANGUAGE | en | |
| MOODLE_SITENAME | New-Site | |
| MOODLE_USERNAME | moodleuser | |
| MOODLE_PASSWORD | PLEASE_CHANGEME | |
| SMTP_HOST | smtp.gmail.com | |
| SMTP_PORT | 587 | |
| SMTP_USER | your_email@gmail.com | |
| SMTP_PASSWORD | your_password | |
| SMTP_PROTOCOL | tls | |
| MOODLE_MAIL_NOREPLY_ADDRESS | noreply@localhost | |
| MOODLE_MAIL_PREFIX | [moodle] | |
| AUTO_UPDATE_MOODLE | true | Set to false to disable performing update of Moodle (e.g. plugins) at docker start |
| client_max_body_size | 50M | |
| post_max_size | 50M | |
| upload_max_filesize | 50M | |
| max_input_vars | 5000 |