theodorosploumis / distros.bid

A saas to create drupal websites in seconds using docker containers.

Theodoros Ploumis (he/him)

Hi, I am a full stack Drupal developer and I work for www.eworx.gr.

Portfolio

• https://theodorosploumis.github.io/portfolio

Profiles & Accounts

Development	Design	Social
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Drupal.org	Pinterest	Twitter
GitHub	Behance
StackExchange
Stackshare.io

Recent contributions

• theodorosploumis/php-docs - A simple web tool to create html docs under git from structured markdown files. (1 day ago)
• theodorosploumis/notes - Personal notes regarding Drupal, Project management and more. (1 day ago)
• eworx-org/drupal-editors - A list of Drupal 8.x + solutions for content authoring and site building. (2 days ago)
• theodorosploumis/awesome-drupal - A collection of awesome resources, tools, books, podcasts etc for Drupal CMS. (4 days ago)
• theodorosploumis/generate_drupal_report - A bash script that generates basic Drupal 8.x packages & modules report in txt files. (1 week ago)
• theodorosploumis/drupal-report - How to estimate the costs and time needed to fix issues or provide a RFP on a Drupal website you did not develop. (3 weeks ago)
• theodorosploumis/drupal-best-practices - Opinion based, short list with common best practices for Drupal. (3 weeks ago)
• serrestech/website - The content that creates the website at (2 months ago)
• eworx-org/drupal-js - Best practices to integrate a Drupal 8.x+ backend with a JavaScript framework frontend (2 months ago)
• drupaltools/drupaltools.github.io - A curated list of OS tools used for Drupal related tasks. (2 months ago)

Special thanks to

• https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats
• https://github.com/muesli/markscribe
• https://github.com/muesli/readme-scribe

who provided the amazing tools to generate this dynamic README!

distros.bid's Issues

New Distributions to add

• https://github.com/goalgorilla/open_social
• https://www.drupal.org/project/openlucius
• https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms
• https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_demo
• https://www.drupal.org/project/provus
• https://www.drupal.org/project/drutopia
• https://www.drupal.org/project/rain
• https://localgovdrupal.org
• https://www.drupal.org/project/ezcontent
• https://www.drupal.org/project/dropsolid_rocketship
• https://www.drupal.org/project/cms
• https://www.drupal.org/project/openatrium
• https://www.drupal.org/project/openscholar
• https://www.drupal.org/project/openedu

Differences with simplytest.me

1. Distributions are pre-installed
2. Faster (startup time less than 30s)
3. Focusing on showcase and fast testing
4. Live for only 40 min
5. No installation errors (due to pre-installed software)
6. Opened FTP so Admins can upload modules fro the UI
7. All files, setup configuration and docker images are open source
8. Every site is an isolated environment using Docker
9. Ability to access the Database using adminer.php (www.mysite.com/adminer.php)
10. Ability to get a web command line (www.mysite.com/terminal.php)
11. Ability to run several software from the cli such as composer, drush, patch, cp, mv etc
12. No url shortcut to generate the site

Project plan - Marketing

1. Add a Blog Post on my website
2. Create a D.O. project
3. Share on D.O. lists/social
4. Create social announcements
5. Better Web UI (menu: about/usage/login, short video or animated gif)
6. Create Video to promote the project
7. Add Thumbnails for Distros on the list below (also, show as grid)
8. Better Ads/Sponsors
9. Add share buttons
10. Create GitHub releases
11. Find a sponsor (sponsors banner)
12. Add to Drupaltools
13. Add Docker hub badges
14. Add to Personal Portfolio

How to update Containers

Start Nginx-proxy

docker run -d -p 8055:80 --name=proxy --restart=always --label name=proxy -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro  jwilder/nginx-proxy

Start Portainer

docker run -d --restart=always --label name=portainer -p 9988:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data --name=portainer portainer/portainer

Open Outreach fails

When selecting Open Outreach, you get the following error message:

{"message":"No such image: drupal8/distros:openoutreach"}

Add Legal and Terms of Use

In order to publish this project on D.O. planet we need to add legal files such as:

1. Terms of Use
2. Privacy Policy
3. FAQs
4. About

Project plan - Docker actions

Docker containers actions GUI

Using docker php sdk

1. Start container
2. Stop container
3. Create container
4. Destroy container (with volumes?)
5. Monitor container logs
6. Add restart policy
7. Use data volumes (or flocker)
8. Destroy container after X hr (using cron on host or host docker api)
9. Console (bash) to container

(Clone container?)

Awesome

Awesome job - I played around with different distributions - Loved that I could get to the Terminal to play with Drush.

Most of the Drush commands worked except when running drush up -y - That fails.
Also the terminal.php does not change directories. I found another option that does seem to work.
https://github.com/Fluidbyte/PHP-jQuery-Terminal-Emulator

Have you done a write up on how you got this to all work together - It would definitely make an interesting read?
Do you think Docker is ready for production sites yet?

Project plan - Technical Improvements

1. Add Screenshots for each distribution on the select list.
2. SSH to docker images from external IPs.
3. Immediately login Admin after 1st redirect (provide a 1 time login url)
4. Create Portainer templates for each distro
5. Change nginx default text for 503 error (link to main domain)
6. Add patches from the UI form
7. Use custom subdomain per user
8. Create Main Site and Agent (docker containers on port 80 and nginx-proxy) with short url.
9. Create volumes? (mkdir /var/www/$ID)
10. Use linked containers (mysql, server) from base images with --volumes-from
11. Create an Ansible stack for server provisioning
12. Use Makefile to build distros and push on docker hub from travis
13. Include error reporting on settings.php by default (See https://www.drupal.org/node/158043)
14. Stats for Distros used
15. Login to use the site (maybe using a social network) or use a Captcha
16. Include 7.x distributions
17. Create a custom Base image
18. Use Let's Encrypt for main domain
19. Add a time limit to kill containers

Open Door distribution fails

When selecting Open Door, you get the following error message:
502 Bad Gateway

This is the URL: http://opendoor-fwpmygyvnq.drupal.distros.bid:8055/