This allows us to deploy much faster: all we have to do is to copy the
assets from the container to the shared volume.
We also changed the way themes are managed: similarly to static assets,
they are now packaged inside the docker image.
webpack requires the NODE_ENV environment variable which is incorrectly
set "paver update_assets" in development mode. To avoid this issue, we
split update_assets into its subparts.
Added the possibility to easily change the ports that nginx listens to.
This is useful, for instance when Apache or Nginx already runs on the
host. With this change, it is no longer necessary to edit the
docker-compose file to modify these ports.
To deploy with alternate ports, add a `.env` file with the following
contents:
```
OPENEDX_NGINX_PORT=8080
OPENEDX_NGINX_TLSPORT=8443
```
HTTPS is now fully supported. The ACTIVATE_HTTPS feature flag needs to
be set. Required domain names are LMS_HOST, preview.LMS_HOST and
CMS_HOST.
Close #46.
We no longer run the `configure` script on the host. Instead, we run a
container that generates the configuration files. This opens the way for
more complex configuration templates that would be written in jinja2.
More complex templates are required for feature flags, such as SSL,
XQUEUE, etc.
This is not a security issue because ports 8000-8001 are not open to the
world; it should also drastically simplify the life of many people. See
for instance issues #30 and #34.
Also, we allow access to nginx on hostnames "localhost" and
"studio.localhost" for lms and cms, respectively. Again, this will
remove much of the confusion for many users.
Images are no longer built locally, Instead, they are downloaded from
docker hub. This completely changes config file organisation. In
particular, we no longer copy configuration files to the original docker
image.
This allows the user to run their own devstack inside the containers.
Yay!
Also, we handle file permissions cleanly: in docker-entrypoint.sh we
chmod the data and edx-platform files to the same UID of the user on the
host machine. No more permission headaches!
