Hit this deploying to the real Unraid host: the container runs as a fixed non-root uid/gid (999), not root and not Unraid's usual nobody:users (99:100). A freshly-created appdata directory is owned by nobody:users with no write access for anyone else, so the container starts but uvicorn fails immediately with "unable to open database file" — not obvious from the error alone, worth documenting once rather than re-debugging it later. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R2ZKeWkZV7ehf7fivrAkkG
5.5 KiB
deploy/
Everything needed to run Velodrome as one container. See docs/DECISIONS.md D15 (why SQLite
and one container) and D16 (why migrations run from the entrypoint, and the Caddy/tini setup)
before changing anything here.
../Dockerfile Multi-stage build: web SPA + API venv + Caddy, into one runtime image
Caddyfile Serves the static SPA, proxies /api/* to uvicorn on loopback
entrypoint.sh Runs migrations, then supervises uvicorn + Caddy as PID 1's children
unraid-template.xml Unraid Community Applications template — turns the env vars below into
fillable web UI fields instead of a .env file
There is no docker-compose here, deliberately — the app is one container, not a set of services
that need orchestrating together. (Later phases may add genuinely separate containers — a
tileserver, a local LLM — see docs/PLAN.md's "Service topology"; those would get their own
compose file or Unraid templates when a phase actually needs one, not speculatively now.)
Build
From the repo root (the build context — the Dockerfile needs both apps/api and apps/web):
docker build -t velodrome .
Run
docker run -d \
--name velodrome \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v velodrome-data:/data \
-e VELODROME_PUBLIC_URL=https://bikes.example.com \
-e VELODROME_SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32) \
-e VELODROME_ENVIRONMENT=production \
velodrome
Put a TLS-terminating reverse proxy (whatever's already fronting other services on the host) in front of port 8080 — this container only ever serves plain HTTP itself.
GET http://<host>:8080/api/v1/healthz should return {"status": "ok"} once it's up.
Environment variables
All read by apps/api/velodrome/config.py (prefix VELODROME_) — the app and Alembic both read
the same values, there's no separate migration-time config anymore (docs/DECISIONS.md D15).
| Variable | Required | Default (baked into the image) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
VELODROME_DATABASE_URL |
No — don't override | sqlite+aiosqlite:////data/velodrome.db |
Fixed to the /data volume mount. Change the volume mapping, not this. |
VELODROME_PUBLIC_URL |
Yes | none | The externally-visible URL. Checked against Origin on cookie-authenticated mutations — get this wrong and every logged-in write silently 403s. |
VELODROME_SECRET_KEY |
Yes | insecure dev placeholder | openssl rand -hex 32. Not yet used for anything reachable (arrives with Bryton credential encryption in a later phase) — set a real value now anyway. |
VELODROME_ENVIRONMENT |
Yes | development |
development | test | production. Gates the session cookie's Secure flag — always production behind real HTTPS. |
VELODROME_SESSION_TTL_DAYS |
No | 90 |
Login session lifetime. |
VELODROME_SESSION_COOKIE_NAME |
No | vd_session |
Only matters if it collides with another app on the same domain. |
Volumes
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
/data |
The SQLite database file. Will also hold the content-addressed blob store once Phase 1 builds ingestion. This is the only thing that needs backing up. |
The container runs as a fixed non-root user (uid/gid 999), not root and not Unraid's usual
nobody:users (99:100). If /data's host directory doesn't already exist, Docker/Unraid creates
it owned by nobody:users with no write access for other users — the container starts, but
uvicorn fails immediately with sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file, since it
can't create the SQLite file inside a directory it can't write to. Fix once, before first start:
chown -R 999:999 <host path> (e.g. /mnt/user/appdata/velodrome on Unraid).
Unraid
Import unraid-template.xml from the Docker tab's "Add Container" template picker — it exposes
the Port, Data path, and the env vars above as fillable web UI fields, matching the earlier
decision to keep configuration in Unraid's own UI rather than a .env file on disk. Every field
stays editable by hand afterward regardless of what the template pre-fills.
Publishing the image
.gitea/workflows/release.yml builds this Dockerfile and pushes it to the Gitea container
registry at registry.bbergle.com:9537/bbergle/bike-app on every push to main (tagged
main-<short-sha>, and latest), on a v* tag push (tagged with the tag name, and latest), or
on manual workflow_dispatch (tagged manual-<timestamp>-<short-sha> only — a manual dispatch
never moves latest, so testing a feature branch can't clobber what's actually deployable). Not
192.168.0.3:3000 (Gitea's own plain-HTTP address) directly — Docker
refuses any non-localhost registry over plain HTTP by default, so registry.bbergle.com:9537 is
an NPMplus proxy host in front of Gitea's registry that terminates TLS with a self-signed cert.
See docs/DECISIONS.md D17 for the full setup (cert, NPMplus proxy host, certs.d trust, and the
buildx driver change this required) — none of it is committed here, since it's host-local trust
material and NPMplus config, not something this repo can or should own.
It does not SSH into the host and recreate the running container — rolling out a new image on Unraid (pulling it and clicking "Apply" on the container, or via Unraid's own update-checking) is left as a manual/Unraid-side step, not something CI does unattended.
What's not here yet
Backups (docs/PLAN.md calls for a systemd timer running restic against /data, independent of
CI) and the import_inbox USB-watch bind mount are both Phase 1+ concerns — nothing in the schema
uses them yet.