funkwhale/docs/developer/setup/docker.md

Develop using Docker

Funkwhale can be run in Docker containers for local development. You can work on any part of the Funkwhale codebase and run the container setup to test your changes. To work with Docker:

1. Install Docker

2. Install docker compose

3. Clone the Funkwhale repository to your system. The develop branch is checked out by default

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   :::{tab-item} SSH

   git clone git@dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale.git
   cd funkwhale
   

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   :::{tab-item} HTTPS

   git clone https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale.git
   cd funkwhale
   

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Set up your Docker environment

Funkwhale provides a `compose.yml` file following the default file naming convention of a Docker Compose manifest. For Linux users, we assume that you finished the post-install steps to [manage Docker as a non-root user](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/#manage-docker-as-a-non-root-user).

To set up your Docker environment:

1. Create a .env file to enable customization of your setup.

   touch .env
   

2. Add the following variables to load images and enable access to Django admin pages:

   MEDIA_URL=http://localhost:8000/media/
   STATIC_URL=http://localhost:8000/staticfiles/
   

3. Create a network for federation support

   docker network create federation
   

Once you've set everything up, you need to build the containers. Run this command any time there are upstream changes or dependency changes to ensure you're up-to-date.

docker compose build

Manage services

Once you have set up your containers, launch all services to start working on them:

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:::{tab-item} Multi node federation testnet (Default)

docker compose -f compose.net.yml up -d
docker compose up -d

This gives you access to the following:

• The Funkwhale web app on https://funkwhale.funkwhale.test
• The Funkwhale API on https://funkwhale.funkwhale.test/api/v1
• The Django admin interface on https://funkwhale.funkwhale.test/api/admin

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:::{tab-item} Single node local development

docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.local.yml up -d

This gives you access to the following:

• The Funkwhale web app on http://localhost:8000
• The Funkwhale API on http://localhost:8000/api/v1
• The Django admin interface on http://localhost:8000/api/admin

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To be able to login create a local superuser:

docker compose run --rm api funkwhale-manage fw users create --superuser

Once you're done with the containers, you can stop them all:

docker compose stop

If you want to destroy your containers, run the following:

docker compose down

To also destroy the state of your containers, run:

docker compose down -v

Set up local data

You can create local data to mimic a live environment.

Add some fake data to populate the database. The following command creates 25 artists with random albums, tracks, and metadata.

artists=25 # Adds 25 fake artists
command="from funkwhale_api.music import fake_data; fake_data.create_data($artists)"
echo $command | docker compose run --rm -T api funkwhale-manage shell -i python

Set up federation support

Working on federation features requires additional setup. You need to do the following:

1. Update your DNS resolver to resolve all your .test hostnames locally
2. Set up a reverse proxy (such as traefik) to catch .test requests with a TLS certificate
3. Set up two or more local instances

To resolve hostnames locally, run the following:

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:::{tab-item} dnsmasq

echo "address=/test/172.17.0.1" | sudo tee /etc/dnsmasq.d/test.conf
sudo systemctl restart dnsmasq

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:::{tab-item} NetworkManager

echo "address=/test/172.17.0.1" | sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/test.conf
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

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:::{tab-item} dnsmasq in Docker

docker compose -f docker/dnsmasq.yml up -d
sudo resolvectl domain docker0 '~funkwhale.test.'
sudo resolvectl dns docker0 172.17.0.1

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To add a wildcard certificate, copy the test certificate from the docker/ssl folder to your system store. This certificate is a wildcard for *.funkwhale.test.

For Debian-based systems like Ubuntu, run:

sudo cp docker/ssl/test.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
sudo update-ca-certificates

For RHEL-based systems like Fedora, run:

sudo cp docker/ssl/test.crt /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
sudo update-ca-trust

To run a reverse proxy for your app:

1. Add the following configuration to your .env file:

   cat >> .env <<< "
   # Remove any port binding so you can specify this per-instance
   VUE_PORT_BINDING=
   # Disable certificate validation
   EXTERNAL_REQUESTS_VERIFY_SSL=false
   # Ensure all links use https
   FUNKWHALE_PROTOCOL=https
   # Disable host ports binding for the nginx container so that traefik handles everything
   NGINX_PORTS_MAPPING=80"
   

2. Launch traefik using the bundled configuration:

   docker compose -f docker/traefik.yml up -d
   

   Your previous instance is now reachable at https://funkwhale.funkwhale.test

3. Set up as many different projects as you need. Make sure the COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME and VUE_PORT variables are unique per instance

   export COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=node2
   # VUE_PORT this has to be unique for each instance
   export VUE_PORT=1234
   docker compose run --rm api funkwhale-manage fw users create --superuser
   docker compose up -d
   

   You can access your project at https://{COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}.funkwhale.test.

Known issues and workarounds

• (systemd-resolved) Under certain conditions the docker0 bridge does not stay up, which in turn deactivates any DNS configuration associated to the interface. Uncomment the prepared resolved helper in line #6 of compose.net.yml to fix this issue and restart the networking stack. docker compose -f compose.net.yml up -d
• Broken federation on Alpine containers