Tag: Docker

New version of ApiOpenStudio Docker Dev

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ApiOpenStudio Docker Dev has just been improved!

This is an update of the existing developer docker environment, geared towards developers of:

  • ApiOpenStudio Core
  • ApiOpenStudio Admin
  • Plugins
  • Connectors

It is not ready for full public release yet, because it implements the new ApiOpenStudio Docker Dev, which is still in pre-release.

However, it has some brilliant new features:

  • Uses Traefik as the reverse proxy (faster and better than Nginx reverse proxy).
  • All logging in a single place from Traefik and ApiOpenStudio (easier development processes).
  • A Makefile to simplify setup, initialisation and day to day usage (easier and faster setup and usage).
  • Example settings file, allowing you to get up and running in under 20 minutes (no need to worry about debugging your initial setup).
  • Persistent DB, stored in a docker volume for security, space-saving and portability.
  • Full HTTPS support and setup
  • Tested and working on all major OS’s:
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
  • The only requirements on the host OS:
    • Docker
    • Git
    • mkcert
  • Fully documented in the README, including FAQ for possible common issues and howto’s.

It will be a new major version release, will not be backwards compatible with the existing v1.x.x of apiopenstudio_docker_dev. Because of this, it will remain in the develop branch until apiopenstudio_admin_vue is ready for alpha release at the earliest.

You can checkout out code from the develop branch at https://gitlab.com/apiopenstudio/apiopenstudio_docker_dev/-/tree/develop, ensure that all repository checkouts are on the develop branch (for now).

This will enable a sneak preview on progress in the new Admin interface, that will include a drag n drop interface (for even faster and simpler development), and fully revised UX/UI.

ApiOpenStudio Production Docker video

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We have released a new video on YouTube, demonstrating the speed and ease of deployment: spinning-up full running API and Admin installations on separate servers in under 30 minutes!

The ApiOpenStudio Production Docker video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ_Q81MhXUw.

This is a response to the discovery of an issue with the admin Docker image at the end of last week. The issue was resolved over the weekend and the docker images have been re-published.

ApiOpenStudio Admin production docker fixed

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While preparing for yesterday’s seminar, it was found that the naala89/apiopenstudio_admin docker images were broken (the issue can be viewed here).

The good old fashioned “it works on my machine” came back to bite us, but the code has been updated and it is now loomed correctly into the GitLab pipelines. Many thanks to laughing_man77 for jumping on this so quickly!

Problem solved!

We’re pleased to announce that the issue has been resolved, and all tags have been re-uploaded to docker hub. So that was a really quick turn-around of 1 day (and we even had a chance to sleep on it before pushing it live).

Note: the only code that was affected was the https://gitlab.com/apiopenstudio/docker_images/apiopenstudio_admin_docker_prod repository. So if you have an existing checkout of the admin MVP code, this will not affect you.

Apart from the good news that full production images for ApiOpenStudio core and admin are fully working and tested, I also tested the released image on an existing server – and proved that the install time of admin is under 5 minutes!

New Docker images for ApiOpenStudio!

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The latest off the hot-press: We have finalised and published the docker creation pipelines. This now means that you will continually have the latest version of ApiOpenStudio Core and Admin images at your fingertips.

The images are very fast and easy to install and completely self-contained (server and all requirements, including Composer dependencies). That means that you do not need to install any infrastructure on a barebones server, except for Docker, config file and SSL certificates. See:

The scripts are configured to generate images from tags or any branches we want to release (this includes develop/master branches and any development branches that we deem necessary for testing).

Full documentation of the installation process is available on our wiki at:

The scripts are available at the GitLab docker repository (Core and Admin), and I’ve also taken a little time out to post a gist of one of the scripts that others may find useful (download a specified branch or tag from a GitLab or GitHub into a location) at https://gist.github.com/naala89.

Major change to the ApiOpenStudio repository location

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In order to implement pipelines and docker, with automated builds of docker images, the ApiOpenStudio projects have all been added to a new ApiOpenStudio group in GitLab.

This will enable GitLab pipelines to orchestrate pipelines across all of the projects as code is pushed and merged.

There was a dependency on this for upcoming tickets and tasks, so the tasks could not be delayed any longer. Because of this change, we have merged the develop branch to master branch, because this will update the wiki and phpdoc to reflect these changes.

However a new release tag for packagist has not been generated at this stage, becase we are only a few tasks away from beta release.

New changes available in the master branch:

  • GitLab CI pipelines now faster, (#118 – closed).
  • Wiki pages updated (#118 – closed & #115 – closed).
  • Fixed CI artefacts not being uploaded on failure (#117 – closed).
  • Logging now works on PHP8.0 as well as PHP7.4 (#111 – closed).
    • This involved deprecating Cascade, and creating a wrapper for the awesome Monolog package.
  • Implemented full JWT token authentication (#101 – closed).
  • Fix automated unit and functional tests (#110 – closed).
  • The entire project code has been updated to ensure all the latest PHPdoc and coding standards are passed.
  • Fixed Packagist for apiopenstudio_admin – sorry, this was my bad – it was a copy and paste error that went unnoticed.

Contributors and developers using the codebase

If you have a clone of the Gitlab repository, you will need to update your remote branch with the following command (assuming you have cloned with SSH):

git remote set-url origin git@gitlab.com:apiopenstudio/apiopenstudio.git

If you have a clone of the GitLab repository, you will need to update your remote branch with the following command (assuming you have cloned with SSH):

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:naala89/apiopenstudio.git

If you have forked the Gitlab repository, you can update the upstream URL:

git remote set-url upstream git@gitlab.com:apiopenstudio/apiopenstudio.git

The updated URLs

The new Group URL’s

The GitLab project URL’s

The GitHub mirror URL’s

Exciting upcoming features for the Beta release

  • Unit and Functional testing for PHP8.0 to ensure working across all contemporary PHP versions.
  • Composer 2.0 should be fine, but this should be tested before Beta release.
  • Swagger processor will be brought up to dat and fixed to allow importing and exporting of OpenApi documents.
  • Automated tagging and generation of an ApiOpenStudio Docker image

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