How to setup docker via NAS container station gui

[I-Connect]

Hi,

I am trying to get selfhosted budibase up and running on a QNAP NAS via the Container station gui.
I installed the budibase-apps docker (do I also need the worker docker or is this only for scaling purposes?) and I installed the budibase builder and set it to self hosted:

Hosting URL
192.168.1.21:4001
Hosting Key
budibase

But I am stuck at creating the app. I see the app being created and listed in the budibase builder but on the terminal of my running docker container I see these error messages:

yarn run v1.22.5                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
$ node src/index                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Budibase running on {"address":"::","family":"IPv6","port":4001}                                                                                                                                                                              
ERROR    [1612110298148] (not_found/28 on budibase-apps): missing                                                                                                                                                                             
    status: 404                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
    message: "missing"                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
    error: true                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
    reason: "missing"                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
    docId: "worker"                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
    type: "Error"                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
    req: {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
      "id": 1,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
      "method": "GET",                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
      "url": "/worker/api/apps",                                                                                                                                                                                                              
      "headers": {                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
        "x-budibase-auth": "budibase",                                                                                                                                                                                                        
        "accept": "*/*",                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
        "user-agent": "node-fetch/1.0 (+https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch)",                                                                                                                                                               
        "accept-encoding": "gzip,deflate",                                                                                                                                                                                                    
        "connection": "close",                                                                                                                                                                                                                
        "host": "192.168.1.21:4001"
      },                              
    "remoteAddress": "::ffff:192.168.1.135",                                                                                                                                                                                                
      "remotePort": 65212                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
    }    

And when I try to deploy I get a popup:

Deployment Error
missing

My docker container environment variables settings are:

Name					Value	
APP_PORT				4002	
BUDIBASE_ENVIRONMENT	PRODUCTION	
CLOUD					1	
COUCH_DB_PASSWORD		budibase	
COUCH_DB_PORT			4005	
COUCH_DB_URL			localhost:5984	
COUCH_DB_USER			budibase	
HOSTING_KEY				budibase	
JWT_SECRET				testsecret	
MINIO_ACCESS_KEY		budibase	
MINIO_PORT				4004	
MINIO_SECRET_KEY		budibase	
NODE_ENV				production	
NODE_VERSION			12.20.1	
PATH					/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin	
WORKER_PORT			4003	
YARN_VERSION			1.22.5

Port Forwarding	
Host	Container	Protocol	
4001	4001		TCP
4002	4002		TCP
4003	4003		TCP
4004	4004		TCP
4005	4005		TCP

(not sure I need these as it is all running in 1 container...)

thx!

[mike12345567]

Hi @I-Connect running the containers individually will likely not be a simple process, our documentation for getting Budibase up and running can be found here. If you follow these through to the hosting methods you'll find that we make use of docker compose to run our system, there are a few key containers that make it function correctly:

1. The Budibase apps docker image
2. The Budibase worker, this is required for background processes
3. A CouchDB image
4. An Envoy image (a reverse proxy engine)
5. A Minio image - used for object storage

All of these images need to be networked together correctly, and we use docker compose to manage when these services start and how they are networked. Running the images individually will be quite difficult to manage, its not something we would recommend.

If it is possible for you to get shell access to the NAS box then you might be able to install docker compose and run the containers that way.

We have discussed the idea of a single image option although this is still up in the air, as it becomes very difficult to scale in the future; if you have any thoughts about this we'd love to hear them!

[I-Connect]

hi @mike12345567 thx for the quick response, clear.
I did suspect it would be something like this when I started to run into the errors.

I searched for budibase dockers at docker hub and found the apps and worker image. Maybe it is an idea to add something to the comments to prevent others from going the same way I did.

I do have shell access so I will give that a go.
Will post some feedback.

Regards,
Jeroen

PS. I understand the scalability issue if you would create a single image but it would be nice just for quickly creating a testsetup...

[mike12345567]

Hi @I-Connect - thanks for pointing this out, I didn't think of this, I have updated the readme and description of the images on Docker hub to make this more clear.

Please let me know if you run into any trouble - also if you're looking for more immediate help you can checkout our Discord!

[I-Connect]

small update... for the time being I installed an ubuntu container and ran the docker compose within that container. Not very scalable but good enough for testing.

[mike12345567]

Hi @I-Connect glad you were able to get something up and working - sadly I'm not sure there will be anyway that a single container deployment will be scalable, but at least its testable!