Docker Installation Guide

Easy Docker Installation via Docker Toolbox

Tested on Windows 10 x64 4/15/2017. Instructions should be similar for OSX users.

1. Get the Docker Toolbox and install it.

2. Start Kitematic

3. Use VirtualBox to get your environment set up.

4. You can skip the docker-hub login if you wish.

Using Plex-Board on Docker via Kitematic

1. Search for the container scytherswings/plex-board and pull it down by clicking CREATE. This will download the container and start it up.

   To see the web interface hit the "pop-out" button for "Web Preview" (The button is to the left of the gear wheel/cog thing)

You're now running Plex-Board on Docker!

Starting Plex-Board Docker automatically on boot

... Coming soon. Sorry, only so many hours in the day.

Making the database persistent

By default, the Plex-Board container will store the database inside the container. The side-effect of doing this is that if you delete the container, then you will lose your configurations for Plex-Board!

Once you have configured Plex-Board you can copy the database to your local file system with a command like this:

docker cp plex-board:/app/db/ /host/path/for/the/database

(You can open a docker CLI in the bottom left of Kitematic)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22049212/docker-copy-file-from-container-to-host

Kitematic will actually automatically recognize volumes and provide a way to configure them.

If you're on the "Home" tab for the container there will be a "Volumes" section.

If you click on the "/app/db" volume, Kitematic will ask if you'd like to enable them. On Windows, it will create a folder underneath your Documents\Kitematic. You can copy the production.sqlite3 file into the nested db directory that should be there now.

Once you have copied out your configured database you can then mount it as a volume whenever you start your docker container. (Kitematic will take care of this for you if you did it through there)

docker run -v /host/path/for/the/database:/app/db -p 3000:3000 -t plex-board