koha-testing-docker

This project provides a dockered solution for running a Koha ILS development environment inside Docker containers.

It is built using the package install with the needed tweaks (including koha-gitify) in order to create such environment.

The docker-compose.yml file is self explanatory.

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• If Docker is installed as root, you need to add your user to the docker group.

  $ sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

Usage

• First, fetch this project:

  $ mkdir ~/git ; cd ~/git
  $ git clone https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker.git
  $ cd koha-testing-docker

Launch

Requirement: The SYNC_REPO variable needs to be defined and contain the full path for a Koha’s git repository clone.

This can be made permanent by adding the following to your user’s .bashrc (using the correct path to your Koha clone):

  # ENV variables for kohadevbox
  export SYNC_REPO="/home/user/kohaclone"
  export LOCAL_USER_ID=$(id -u)

Note you will need to log out and log back in (or start a new terminal window) for this to take effect.

Setup

Copy the env/defaults.env file into the running directory:

  $ cp env/defaults.env .env

Some variables need to be set to run this:

  $ export SYNC_REPO=/path/to/kohaclone
  $ export LOCAL_USER_ID=$(id -u)

Running

Aliases

This project includes some handy aliases for easy startup, opening a shell inside the Koha container and stopping everything:

Alias	Function
ku	Start the whole thing, using MariaDB 10.1 with Debian 9
ku-es5	As above, plus ES5
ku-es6	As above, replacing ES5 with ES6
ku-es7	As above, replacing ES6 with ES7
ku-mdb	Start the whole thing, using latest MariaDB with Debian 9
ku-md9	Start the whole thing, using MariaDB matched to Debian 9
ku-md10	Start the whole thing, using MariaDB matched to Debian 10
ku-my8	Start the whole thing, using latest MySQL with Debian 9
kp	Start the whole thing, with mysql persistence
kup	Start the env, plugin development set 1 2
kk	Start the whole thing, with kibana
kpk	Start the whole thing, with mysql persistence and kibana
kd	Stop the whole thing
kshell	Opens a shell inside the Koha container

In order to use this aliases you need to edit your ~/.bashrc ( or ~/.profile if using Git for Windows ) file adding:

export KOHA_TESTING_DOCKER_HOME=/path/to/your/koha-testing-docker/clone
source ${KOHA_TESTING_DOCKER_HOME}/files/bash_aliases

Manually

  $ docker-compose -p koha up

Alternatively, you can have it run all the tests and exit, like this:

  $ export RUN_TESTS_AND_EXIT="yes"
  # Optionally you can add COVERAGE=1 so the tests generate coverage data
  # Optionally you can add CPAN=1 to pull the latest versions of perl dependancies directly from cpan
  $ docker-compose -p koha up --abort-on-container-exit

Update images

  $ docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml pull

Database persistence

If you need to keep the DB between your different uses of the containers, you can run

  $ docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.persistent.yml -p koha up

Alias: kp

Kibana

If you would like to use Kibana for testing/interacting with ES directly you can include an extra compose file

  $ docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.kibana.yml -p koha up

Alias: kk

It is possible to combine this with persistence

  $ docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.persistent.yml -f docker-compose.kibana.yml -p koha up

Alias: kpk

Getting into the container

Getting into the koha container:

  $ docker exec -it koha_koha_1 bash

Note: the first koha should match the -p parameter used in docker-compose up

Alias: kshell

Once you are left on the shell, you can run Koha tests as you would on KohaDevBox:

  $ sudo koha-shell kohadev
  $ cd koha
  $ prove t/db_dependent/Search.t

Getting to the web interface

The IP address of the web server in your docker group will be variable. Once you are in with SSH, issuing a

$ip a

should display the IP address of the webserver. At this point the web interface of Koha can be accessed by going to http://:8080 for the OPAC http://:8081 for the Staff interface.

Available commands and aliases

The Koha container ships with some aliases to improve productivity. They are divided in two, depending on the user in which the alias is defined.

Aliases for the instance user require that you start a shell with that user in order to be used. This is done like this:

  $ kshell

root user

• koha-intra-err: tail the intranet error log
• koha-opac-err: tail the OPAC error log
• koha-plack-log: tail the Plack access log
• koha-plack-err: tail de Plack error log
• kshell: get into the instance user, on the kohaclone dir
• koha-user: get the db/admin username from koha-conf.xml
• koha-pass: get the db/admin password from koha-conf.xml
• dbic: recreate the schema files using a fresh DB
• flush_memcached: Flush all key/value stored on memcached
• restart_all: restarts memcached, apache and plack
• reset_all: Drop and recreate the koha database [*]
• reset_all_marc21: Same as reset_all, but forcing MARC21
• reset_all_unimarc: Same as reset_all, but forcing UNIMARC
• start_plack_debug: Start Plack in debug mode, trying to connect to a remote debugger if set.
• updatedatabase: Run the updatedatabase.pl script in the right context (instance user)

Note: it is recommended to run start_plack_debug on a separate terminal because it doesn’t free the prompt until the process is stopped.

[*] reset_all actually:

• Drops the instance’s database, and creates an empty one.
• Calls the misc4dev/do_all_you_can_do.pl script.
• Populates the DB with the sample data, using the configured MARC flavour.
• Create a superlibrarian user.
• Updates the debian files in the VM (overwrites the ones shipped by the koha-common package).
• Updates the plack configuration file for the instance.
• Calls restart_all

kohadev user

• qa: Run the QA scripts on the current branch. For example: qa -c 2 -v 2
• prove_debug: Run the prove command with all parameters needed for starting a remote debugging session.

Having Elasticsearch run

In order for Elasticsearch to run, changes to the host OS need to be made. Please read the official docs

TL;DR

Increase vm.max_map_count kernel setting to at least 262144:

• On Linux:

  # Increase vm.max_map_count
  $ sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
  # Make it permanent
  $ sudo echo "vm.max_map_count=262144" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

• On MacOS:

  $ screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty
  # login with root and no password
  $ sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

If the screen command doesn’t work try: find ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/ -name ‘tty’

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1. You need to export the PLUGIN_REPO variable, with the full path to the plugin dir. It will fail to load if you don’t export the variable first. ↩︎

2. To force Koha to load plugins after import: perl -e ‘use Koha::Plugins; my $plugin = Koha::Plugins->new(); $plugin->InstallPlugins;’ ↩︎