tiagojulianoferreira / docker

Librebooking as a docker container

What is librebooking

Librebooking is a simple powerful scheduling solution for any organization, forked from Booked.

Project goal

This project implements the librebooking web application as a docker image.

The image contains the apache web server and the librebooking application files. It needs to be linked to a MariaDB database container.

Upgrade to version 2 of the docker images

Version 1 of the docker images exposed the container directory /var/www/html. This resulted in:

• Storing the application files in a docker volume or a local directory on the host
• A complex upgrade procedure
• Longer container startup time

From version 2, the docker images expose the container directory /config. This implies:

• To store the application configuration files only
• A simple upgrade procedure
• A faster container startup time

Docker images are tagged as follows:

librebooking/librebooking:<application-version>-<image-version>

Examples:

• image v1: librebooking/librebooking:2.8.5.5-1.2.3
• image v2: librebooking/librebooking:2.8.5.5-2.3.2

To upgrade from a version-1 docker image to a version-2 docker image, you need to:

1. Stop your running librebooking-V1 instance
2. Edit your docker-compose.yml file to replace the:
   1. v1-docker image with the corresponding v2
   2. container mapped folder /var/www/html with /config
3. Start your librebooking-V2 instance

On first run:

• The former content of your librebooking volume will be moved to the folder archive
• The librebooking configuration files will be copied under the root of the librebooking volume and linked to the application container folder

Table of contents

1. Get or build the docker image
2. Run the docker container
3. Setup the application