When nginx was removed in favour of caddy, we decided that plugin
implementations of the "caddyfile" patch should make use of the "port" local
variable. However, local variables are not available from inside plugin
patches, which are rendered outside of the context of the parent templates.
For a more extensive description of the problem, see:
https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-mfe/pull/23#issuecomment-964016190
We still want to make it easy for developers to decide what should the port be
for caddy hosts. To do so, we make use of environment variables that are passed
at runtime to the caddy container.
Thus, a regular plugin patch should look like this:
{{ PLUGIN_HOST }}{$default_site_port} {
import proxy "myplugin:8000"
}
Forum is an optional feature, and as such it deserves its own plugin. Starting
from Maple, users will be able to install the forum from
https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-forum/
Close #450.
In the past, tutor was installed with "pip install tutor-openedx". For
some time (since v12.0.2), "tutor" was installed as a dependency of
"tutor-openedx". Now is the time to get rid of that old package.
The standard way of installing tutor is now with "pip install tutor".
With this change, containers are no longer run as "root" but as unprivileged
users. This is necessary in some environments, notably some Kubernetes
clusters.
To make this possible, we need to manually fix bind-mounted volumes in
docker-compose. This is pretty much equivalent to the behaviour in Kubernetes,
where permissions are fixed at runtime if the volume owner is incorrect. Thus,
we have a consistent behaviour between docker-compose and Kubernetes.
We achieve this by bind-mounting some repos inside "*-permissions" services.
These services run as root user on docker-compose and will fix the required
permissions, as per build/permissions/setowner.sh These services simply do not
run on Kubernetes, where we don't rely on bind-mounted volumes. There, we make
use of Kubernete's built-in volume ownership feature.
With this change, we get rid of the "openedx-dev" Docker image, in the sense
that it no longer has its own Dockerfile. Instead, the dev image is now simply
a different target in the multi-layer openedx Docker image. This makes it much
faster to build the openedx-dev image.
Because we declare the APP_USER_ID in the dev/docker-compose.yml file, we need
to pass the user ID from the host there. The only way to achieve that is with a
tutor config variable. The downside of this approach is that the
dev/docker-compose.yml file is no longer portable from one machine to the next.
We consider that this is not such a big issue, as it affects the development
environment only.
We take this opportunity to replace the base image of the "forum" image. There
is now no need to re-install ruby inside the image. The total image size is
only decreased by 10%, but re-building the image is faster.
In order to run the smtp service as non-root, we switch from namshi/smtp to
devture/exim-relay. This change should be backward-compatible.
Note that the nginx container remains privileged. We could switch to
nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged, but it's probably not worth the effort, as we are
considering to get rid of the nginx container altogether.
Close #323.
