Docker image

Tuleap Community Edition

What for ?

The Tuleap Community Edition docker image allows you to test Tuleap quickly by skipping the installation and customization part. It gives you a fully working Tuleap in minutes with everything preconfigured with sensible defaults.

That’s the recommended way to install Tuleap, especially if you “just want to give it a try”.

Prerequisites

You need docker on your host. You might want docker-compose as well.

We are going to pull the official Tuleap Community Edition image. It’s built out of Tuleap official pipelines in rolling release mode.

The following sections assume that you are going to run the Tuleap container as the only “visible” container on the server. That means that Tuleap web container will publish it’s ports (80, 443 and 22) on hosts ports.

Verify the image authenticity

We sign the official Tuleap Community Edition image each time we publish it. The image is signed using cosign.

You can verify the image authenticity by downloading our public key into a file named tuleap_docker.pub and then running:

$ cosign verify -key tuleap_docker.pub tuleap/tuleap-community-edition

On success the output will look something like this:

Verification for tuleap/tuleap-community-edition --
The following checks were performed on each of these signatures:
  - The cosign claims were validated
  - The signatures were verified against the specified public key
  - Any certificates were verified against the Fulcio roots.
{"critical":{"identity":{"docker-reference":"index.docker.io/tuleap/tuleap-community-edition"},"image":{"docker-manifest-digest":"sha256:e425adc51e915c6974db6c82723a520123c1014a091d93b4f504384c6d916608"},"type":"cosign container image signature"},"optional":null}

Deploy a test environment with docker-compose

Warning

The following section is meant for test purpose only. The databases (mysql and redis) are handled by docker and it’s not a recommended setup unless you perfectly understand how to operate (run, backup, restore, troubleshoot) them under docker constraints.

In a directory named tuleap-community-edition (be careful, with docker-compose, directory name matters) create a .env file that defines two variables:

TULEAP_FQDN=tuleap.example.com
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=some random strong password
TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD=another strong password
SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD=and a third strong password

TULEAP_FQDN is the full name of the machine you are going to run Tuleap on. As we saw in pre-requisite section, it should be the name of your docker host either from DNS or at very least defined in /etc/hosts (will resolve only locally).
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD will be the root password of your mysql instance.
TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD will be the password used by Tuleap application to connect to the database (default user tuleapadm)
SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD will be the password of the Tuleap site administrator application user.

Notes about passwords:

we recommend at least 20 chars but only alphabetical & numbers,
they are set at the site initialization only (not updated automatically).

Then create a compose.yaml file with following content:

version: "2"

services:
  web:
    image: tuleap/tuleap-community-edition
    hostname: ${TULEAP_FQDN}
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
      - "22:22"
    volumes:
      - tuleap-data:/data
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - mailhog
    environment:
      - TULEAP_FQDN=${TULEAP_FQDN}
      - TULEAP_SYS_DBHOST=db
      - TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD=${TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD}
      - SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD=${SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD}
      - DB_ADMIN_USER=root
      - DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      - TULEAP_FPM_SESSION_MODE=redis
      - TULEAP_REDIS_SERVER=redis

  # This is for test purpose only. It's not advised to run a production database as a docker container
  db:
    image: mysql:8.0
    command: ["--character-set-server=utf8mb4", "--collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci", "--sql-mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"]
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
    volumes:
      - db80-data:/var/lib/mysql

  # This is for test purpose only. It's not advised to run a production database as a docker container
  redis:
    image: redis:6
    volumes:
      - redis-data:/data
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes --auto-aof-rewrite-percentage 20 --auto-aof-rewrite-min-size 200kb

  # This is for test purpose only. Mailhog is there to capture email traffic
  mailhog:
    image: mailhog/mailhog

volumes:
  tuleap-data:
  db80-data:
  redis-data:

Run with docker-compose

Go inside the directory where you created the two files and run

$ docker-compose up -d

Then you can follow the progress of the installation with

$ docker-compose logs -f web

Until you see something like:

...
web_1      | ***********************************************************************************************************
web_1      | * Your Tuleap fully qualified domain name is tuleap.example.com and it's IP address is 172.21.0.5         *
web_1      | ***********************************************************************************************************
web_1      | Setup Supervisord
web_1      | Let the place for Supervisord
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,731 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/backend_workers.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,731 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/crond.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,731 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/fpm.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,731 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/httpd.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,732 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/nginx.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,732 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/postfix.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,732 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/rsyslog.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,732 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/sshd.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,732 INFO Included extra file "/etc/supervisord.d/supervisord-server-credentials.ini" during parsing
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,732 INFO Set uid to user 0 succeeded
web_1      | 2021-06-15 14:46:50,769 INFO RPC interface 'supervisor' initialized
...

You can then quit the logs command (Ctrl+C) and open your browser at the address set in TULEAP_FQDN and that’s it.

The docker-compose file provided here is for general guidance and you should adapt to your environment. One of the main thing you will want to configure is a proper email relay. By default, we spawned a mailhog image that will catch all mails sent by Tuleap and display to anyone who have access to the interface.

To see the mails captured by mailhog, you should run:

$ docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' $(docker-compose ps -q mailhog)
172.21.0.2

This will gives you the IP address of the container that runs mailhog, you can then open a browser at this IP address on port 8025:

$ xdg-open http://172.21.0.2:8025

Run without docker compose

For anything but tests you should have a dedicated MySQL (version 8.0) and Redis (last stable recommended) databases.

Then you can init docker image in command line:

$ docker run -ti \
    --restart always \
    --publish 22:22 \
    --publish 80:80 \
    --publish 443:443 \
    --hostname tuleap-ce.example.com \
    -e TULEAP_FQDN=tuleap-ce.example.com \
    -e TULEAP_SYS_DBHOST=db-tuleap-ce.example.com \
    -e DB_ADMIN_USER=root \
    -e DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD} \
    -e TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD=${TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD} \
    -e SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD=${SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD} \
    -e TULEAP_FPM_SESSION_MODE=redis \
    -e TULEAP_REDIS_SERVER=redis \
    -e TULEAP_REDIS_PASSWORD=${REDIS_PASSWORD} \
    -e TULEAP_EMAIL_TRANSPORT=smtp \
    -e TULEAP_EMAIL_RELAYHOST=your-smtp.example.com:2025 \
    -v /srv/path/to/data:/data
    tuleap/tuleap-community-edition

For future runs you don’t need to pass all the environments:

$ docker run -d \
    --restart always \
    --publish 22:22 \
    --publish 80:80 \
    --publish 443:443 \
    --hostname tuleap-ce.example.com \
    -e TULEAP_FPM_SESSION_MODE=redis \
    -e TULEAP_REDIS_SERVER=redis \
    -e TULEAP_EMAIL_TRANSPORT=smtp \
    -e TULEAP_EMAIL_RELAYHOST=your-smtp.example.com:2025 \
    -v /srv/path/to/data:/data
    tuleap/tuleap-community-edition

Tuleap Enterprise Edition

Attention

This image is only available to Tuleap Enterprise subscribers. Please contact your support team to get your access to the private registry.

What for ?

The Tuleap Enterprise Edition docker image is meant to be used in production with an orchestrator (Kubernetes, Swarm, Nomad, etc) or not.

The current image bundles everything in one image to ease the deployment. It’s not recommended to configure your deployment to scale the images (replicate) as it’s not designed to run concurrently.

External Dependencies

The image has two dependencies:

A working database with admin credentials (at first run only)
A persistent filesystem for data storage

How to

You first need to authenticate toward Tuleap registry:

$ docker login docker.tuleap.org

At first run you will need to provide some information about the platform you want to deploy:

The Tuleap server name (without https) as TULEAP_FQDN environment variable
The Database server name as TULEAP_SYS_DBHOST environment variable. See database installation for specific configuration.
The database admin user (root or equivalent) as DB_ADMIN_USER environment variable
The database admin user password as DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD environment variable
The database application user (typically tuleapadm) password as TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD environment variable
The Tuleap admin user password ad SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD environment variable
- WARNING: You cannot enforce encryption of Redis communication if you enabled Subversion because the underlying code, written in perl, doesn’t support encryption.

The data volume must be mounted on /data inside the container.

You must specify the Tuleap tag you want to run (there is no :latest to avoid mistakes). Please note that you can either:

Use the exact Tuleap Enterprise Edition tag like 11.13-4
Or just run the head tag of the release like 11.13

$ docker run -ti \
    -e TULEAP_FQDN=tuleap.example.com \
    -e DB_HOST=db-tuleap.example.com \
    -e DB_ADMIN_USER="root" \
    -e DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD="a fine password" \
    -v tuleap-data:/data
    docker.tuleap.org/tuleap-enterprise-edition:11.13-3

The next runs won’t need the environment variable so you can restart with:

$ docker run -d \
    -v tuleap-data:/data
    docker.tuleap.org/tuleap-enterprise-edition:11.13-3

Note

In the context of an orchestrator you don’t need to separate the 2 modes (first run or restart), you can expose the variables in all runs. Please note however that changing the variables in your deployment (compose, helm, etc) won’t have any impact on the container. You will have to manually edit the configuration files to update the relevant data.

When running, the container exposes the following ports:

80 TCP http traffic, automatically redirected to 443
443 TCP https traffic
22 TCP ssh traffic (for git)

Verify the image authenticity

We sign the Tuleap Enterprise Docker images each time we publish them. The images are signed using cosign.

You can verify an image authenticity by downloading our public key into a file named tuleap_enterprise_docker.pub and then running:

$ cosign verify -key tuleap_enterprise_docker.pub docker.tuleap.org/tuleap-enterprise-edition:12.11-2

On success the output will look something like this:

Verification for docker.tuleap.org/tuleap-enterprise-edition:12.11-2 --
The following checks were performed on each of these signatures:
  - The cosign claims were validated
  - The signatures were verified against the specified public key
  - Any certificates were verified against the Fulcio roots.
{"critical":{"identity":{"docker-reference":"docker.tuleap.org/tuleap-enterprise-edition"},"image":{"docker-manifest-digest":"sha256:9dca6d11d176760c447d671d9a6494f731539712b1d083f161aa800cc46e44ef"},"type":"cosign container image signature"},"optional":null}

Docker images configuration

This section covers the configuration details that applies to both images.

Environment variables

You can also modify the behaviour of Tuleap with environment variables.

General

TULEAP_FQDN: the Tuleap server name (without protocol).

Database

TULEAP_SYS_DBHOST: database server name. See database installation for specific configuration.
DB_ADMIN_USER: admin user (root or equivalent).
DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin user password.
TULEAP_SYS_DBPASSWD: application user (typically tuleapadm) password.
TULEAP_SYS_DBPORT: define this variable if your database runs on a port different of 3306.
TULEAP_SYS_ENABLESSL: can be either 0 to disable or 1 to enable encryption of traffic with database. Default is 0
TULEAP_SYS_DB_SSL_VERIFY_CERT: can be either 0 to disable or 1 to enable verification of database’s certificates. Default is 0. WARNING: perl code (used for subversion core and some maintenance scripts) cannot enforce this, those parts will do encryption without certificate verification.
TULEAP_SYS_DB_SSL_CA: path toward a custom CA file for certifacte verification.
TULEAP_DB_AZURE_SUFFIX: only needed if you deploy on Microsoft Azure MySQL. It should correspond to first part of DB_HOST (see official documentation).

Site administration

SITE_ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD: tuleap admin user password.
TULEAP_SYS_EMAIL_ADMIN: email address where all the system emails will be redirected (since 13.8).

Redis

TULEAP_FPM_SESSION_MODE: you can set it to redis so php sessions will be stored in a Redis K/V store. This also activate usage of redis for Tuleap (background events, etc).
TULEAP_REDIS_SERVER: needed if you set redis for TULEAP_FPM_SESSION_MODE.
TULEAP_REDIS_PORT: needed if redis is listening on port that is not 6379 (the default).
TULEAP_REDIS_PASSWORD: needed if redis requires a password.
TULEAP_REDIS_USE_TLS: set to 1 if you want to encrypt the connection to Redis.

Email

TULEAP_EMAIL_TRANSPORT: email transport (sendmail by default). (since 13.12).
TULEAP_EMAIL_RELAYHOST: email relay host (none by default).

Warning

Please note that not all plugins can be used with this configuration setting (email_relay) and you might need to customize the image to fit your needs.

TLS Certificates

Tuleap container generate a self signed certificate can only communicate in https. In order to have a valid certificate for your end users you either need to:

Delegate the certificate management to your ingress controller (Kubernetes)
Have a reverse proxy in front of the Tuleap container to deal with the certificate
I you don’t want to bother with a reverse proxy, you can modify the certificate generated by tuleap and set yours:
- They key must be /data/etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key.pem
- The cert must be /data/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.cert.pem
- If you need something more complex, use a reverse proxy.

Certification Authority

If you manage your own trust chain, you might need to let container be aware of your own CA. It’s mainly useful when Tuleap should be able to communicate with a 3rd party systems (jenkins, jira, gitlab, webhooks servers, etc) exposed over TLS but with a certificate that is not part of the standard CA bundle.

The extra CA must be mounted at the container root /extra_ca.pem. Tuleap will ensure this CA is added to system’s bundle automatically.

Next steps

Once you have a fully running Tuleap you can start using it: issue tracking, source code management, agile planning and more.

Checkout our tutorials and videos on Getting started page.