Deploy ​

cargo build --release

cargo build --release

Copy the final executable (./target/release/openfairdb) to the target directory of your server and make sure it gets executed as a service on startup.

Secret Key ​

The server uses a secret key to encrypt e.g. private cookies. In release mode it is required to define this secret key. This can be done by setting the environment key ROCKET_SECRET_KEY.

You can generate a key e.g. with OpenSSL:

openssl rand -base64 32

openssl rand -base64 32

Further details can be found in the Rocket documentation.

Docker ​

Build the image ​

Build and tag the Docker image:

docker build -t openfairdb:latest .

docker build -t openfairdb:latest .

The image is created FROM scratch and does not provide any user environment or shell.

Run the container ​

The executable in the container is controlled by the following environment variables:

• RUST_LOG: Log level (trace, debug, info, warn, error)
• DATABASE_URL: Database file path

The database file must be placed in a volume outside of the container. For this purpose the image defines the mountpoint /volume where an external volume from the host can be mounted.

The container exposes the port 8080 for publishing to the host.

Example:

docker run --rm \
    -p 6767:8080 \
    -e RUST_LOG="info" \
    -e ROCKET_SECRET_KEY="hPRYyVRiMyxpw5sBB1XeCMN1kFsDCqKvBi2QJxBVHQk=" \
    -e DATABASE_URL="/volume/openfairdb.sqlite" \
    -v "/var/openfairdb":/volume:Z \
    openfairdb:latest

docker run --rm \
    -p 6767:8080 \
    -e RUST_LOG="info" \
    -e ROCKET_SECRET_KEY="hPRYyVRiMyxpw5sBB1XeCMN1kFsDCqKvBi2QJxBVHQk=" \
    -e DATABASE_URL="/volume/openfairdb.sqlite" \
    -v "/var/openfairdb":/volume:Z \
    openfairdb:latest

NOTE: Don't (!) use this secret key! Generate your own!

Extract the static executable ​

The resulting Docker image contains a static executable named entrypoint that can be extracted from any container instance (but not directly from the image itself):

docker cp <container id>:entrypoint openfairdb

docker cp <container id>:entrypoint openfairdb

Mailing ​

To be able to send email notifications you need to define a sender email address. You can do this by setting the MAIL_GATEWAY_SENDER_ADDRESS environment variable. If you like to use the mailgun service you also need to define the MAILGUN_API_KEY variable with your API key and the MAILGUN_DOMAIN variable with the domain you are setup for mailgun.

DB Backups ​

At the moment the OpenFairDB does not support online backups. Therefore we use a simple script that copies the DB file once a day.