Setup:Installation Guide/Docker

Migration from 4.4With BlueSpice 4.5 there were important changes to the container portfolio:

1. There are no "all-in-one" containers anymore. Neither for FREE, not for PRO and FARM editions
2. The "distributed-services" setup for PRO and FARM edition has been reworked

If you are upgrading from one of the above-mentioned setups, please refer to the migration guide

Overview

The BlueSpice application consists of a number of different services. To ease installations, they are available as a pre-configured stack at github.com/hallowelt/bluespice-deploy, but they also allow more flexibility, e.g. by providing a simple way to run several services on different machines or to re-use existing services.

Service name	Description	FREE	PRO	FARM
wiki	The main application. It features two main modes: "web", for the connection to the client and "task" for any background processing and administrative purposes. It comes in different editions (FREE, PRO and FARM).	YES	YES	YES
pdf	Allows to create PDF filesfrom wikipages	YES	YES	YES
search	Allows to perform a fulltext search on the wiki content	YES	YES	YES
formula	Allows to show mathematical and chemical formulas in the wiki content	NO	YES	YES
collabpads	Allows for simultaneous editing of wikipages	NO	YES	YES
collabpads-database	Stores the data for simultaneous editing sessions.	NO	YES	YES
diagram	Allows to create and edit diagram images in the wiki content	NO	YES	YES
pagepreview	Allows to show preview images of wikipages	YES	YES	YES
cache	Supports application performance	YES	YES	YES
database	Stores the application data	YES	YES	YES
proxy	Manages the clients's access to the different services. Provides SSL capabilities	YES	YES	YES
kerberos-proxy	Allows to set up a Kerberos-based authentication mechanism	NO	OPTIONAL	OPTIONAL

Generic services that can be substituted by already available ones are

• database →Can be replaced by any version compatible MariaDB / MySQL server
• collabpads-database →Can be replaced by any version compatible MongoDB server
• cache →Can be replaced by any version compatible MemcacheD server
• search →Can be replaced by any version compatible OpenSearch server
• proxy -> Can be replaced by any appropriately configured Proxy server / Loadbalancer

Installation

Get actual docker-compose-Files from https://bluespice.com/de/download/

wget https://bluespice.com/filebase/docker-deployment-script && unzip docker-deployment-script && cd docker-deployment-script/compose

Filename	Type	obligatory	Comment
bluespice-deploy	bash-script	false	Wrapper for general start-up of needed Containers
bluespice-prepare	bash-script	false	Prepare Folder and Permissions before first start also creates service
bluespice.service	service-script	false	Porper handling of the Containers on reboot
docker-compose.main.yml	yml	true	Main Services/ run by bluespice-deploy
docker-compose.persistent-data-services.yml	yml	true	Database and Search/ run by bluespice-deploy
docker-compose.stateless-services.yml	yml	false but strongly recommended for full functionality	PDF-Renderer/Cache/Formula/Diagram-Service
docker-compose.proxy.yml	yml	false but recommended	Proxy Service
docker-compose.proxy-letsencrypt.yml	yml	false	Additional autorenewal service for LetsEncrypt-Certificates
docker-compose.kerberos-proxy.yml	yml	false	Additional Proxy for Kerberos-Authenication

The bluespice-deploy script starts the first 4 yml-Files by default.

% cat bluespice-deploy                                                 

docker compose \
	-f docker-compose.main.yml \
	-f docker-compose.persistent-data-services.yml \
	-f docker-compose.stateless-services.yml \
	-f docker-compose.proxy.yml \
	$@

To add additional Services either change script or just add them by hand:

bluespice-deploy -f docker-compose.proxy-letsencrypt.yml up -d

for bluespice.service please do also either expand the line in the etc/systemd/system/bluespice.service:

[Unit]
Description=BlueSpice-Docker startup routinie
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=<WORKDIR>
ExecStart=<WORKDIR>/bluespice-deploy -f docker-compose.proxy-letsencrypt.yml up -f -d --remove-orphans
ExecStop=bluespice-deploy down
TimeoutStartSec=0
Restart=on-failure
StartLimitInterval=120
StartLimitBurst=2

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target%

Create .env file according to existing or state-to-be Installation:

DATADIR=/data/bluespice
VERSION=4.5
EDITION=pro
BACKUP_HOUR=04

WIKI_NAME=BlueSpice
WIKI_LANG=en
WIKI_PASSWORDSENDER=wiki@localhost
WIKI_EMERGENCYCONTACT=wiki@localhost
WIKI_HOST=wiki.company.local
WIKI_PORT=443
WIKI_PROTOCOL=https

DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
DB_HOST=database
DB_NAME=bluespice
DB_PREFIX=

SMTP_HOST=
SMTP_PORT=
SMTP_USER=
SMTP_PASS=
SMTP_ID_HOST=

Run bluespice-prepare script, helping you set up correct Foder-Structure and Permissions. Also Installing a Service for proper handling of the containers on reboots.

Options:

SSL-Certificates

For using Let's Encrypt Certificates just adddocker-compose.proxy-letsencrypt.yml in your bluespice-deploy file

For using self-signend Certificates please put<bluespice-wiki.com>.crt and <bluespice-wiki.com>.key with the exact name of your Wikis URL in ${VOLUMES_DIR}/nginx/certs

If Activating SSL after first creation of Wiki please change $wgServer in ${VOLUMES_DIR}/bluespice-data/LocalSettings.php

to https://bluespice-wiki.com

also link your certificate to the bluespice-container in your docker-compose.yaml-File:

- ${VOLUMES_DIR}/nginx/certs/<FQDNofyourWiki>.crt:/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/<FQDNofyourWiki>.crt:ro

Please restart Containers after changing/adding SSL-Files

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