mugful/centos-owncloud

ownCloud all-in-one container image based on CentOS

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This image is no longer used by the author, and is no longer maintained.

centos-owncloud

The ownCloud docker image on top of CentOS 7.

Pull

docker pull dockingbay/centos-owncloud:latest

Usually you'll want to pull some specific tag instead of latest. See available centos-owncloud tags.

Run

• Prepare a place for ownCloud volumes on the host machine.

    mkdir -p /var/lib/owncloud/{config,data,postgresql}
  

• Label the directories to make SELinux happy.

    chcon -R -t svirt_sandbox_file_t /var/lib/owncloud/data
    chcon -R -t svirt_sandbox_file_t /var/lib/owncloud/config
    chcon -R -t docker_var_lib_t     /var/lib/owncloud/pgsql
  

  On a production system you'll want to run this instead, to make the labels permanent:

    semanage fcontext -a -t svirt_sandbox_file_t /var/lib/owncloud/data(/.*)?
    semanage fcontext -a -t svirt_sandbox_file_t /var/lib/owncloud/config(/.*)?
    semanage fcontext -a -t docker_var_lib_t /var/lib/owncloud/pgsql(/.*)?
    restorecon -Rv /var/lib/owncloud
  

• Run ownCloud docker container.

    docker run -p 8000:80 \
        -v /var/lib/owncloud/config:/var/www/html/owncloud/config
        -v /var/lib/owncloud/data:/var/www/html/owncloud/data
        -v /var/lib/owncloud/pgsql:/var/lib/pgsql
        dockingbay/centos-owncloud:latest
  

  This will bind ownCloud to port 8000. This is ok for testing, but for real use you'll want to put a reverse proxy in front of it and make the reverse proxy accessible only through HTTPS.

• To increase security for real use, the ownCloud installation wizard will not be used (someone else could use the wizard before you would). Instead, ownCloud will autoinstall itself. Give it a moment to do so. The DB and admin passwords will be autogenerated, and you will find them in /var/lib/owncloud/config/initrc. Move that file out of that directory and put it somewhere safe.

• Point your browser to host (and port) where you're running ownCloud. If you're just testing it on your workstation and following these steps, the URL is http://localhost:8000.

• Log into ownCloud with the admin password that was generated to the initrc file. You can now change the admin password to something else. You're running ownCloud now, congrats!

Notes

• Because the apps directory contains apps both from the ownCloud RPM and apps that can be downloaded after installation, there's not really a straightforward solution to allow persistence of the downloaded apps and updating the apps that come with the RPM (= apps that come with the ownCloud docker image). Currently the apps directory is not exported as a volume, which means that all changes there are lost between updates of the docker image. If you just use the ownCloud apps which come with the RPM, you don't need to worry about this.

• The image currently doesn't support serving HTTPS straight from the Docker container. Always use a reverse proxy.

• Backup the exported volume directories between image updates.