Automatically provisioning administrator(s)

[rroemhild]

Automatically provisioning administrator(s)

[rroemhild]

Give ejabberd time to start before register administrator(s).

case "$@" in
    start)
        [...]
        exec ${EJABBERDCTL} "live" &
        child=$!
        sleep 3
        ${EJABBERDCTL} register admin example.de password1234
        wait $child

[dirkmoors]

That seems to have worked, thanks!

[dirkmoors]

I was a bit too quick there. This solution works when running the docker with:

docker run -i -t rroemhild/docker-ejabberd

The problem is, when I try to do 'docker start CONTAINER_ID' afterwards, it crashes right away.

Do you know what's going on?

[rroemhild]

In the second line from the run script set -e immediately exit the script on errors. ejabberdctl register returns an error on docker start because the admin user is already registered. To test this you can comment in line 2 and re-build the image. I would prefer a function that test if the container is provisioned and then skip register the admin user(s).

[dirkmoors]

Yeah commenting out 'set -e' fixed my problem. Maybe create a feature request for adding provisioning of a 'superuser' during build/deploy time?

[rroemhild]

My idea for this is to split the run script into multiple pre- and post- run scripts. With this solution you can extend this image with a script that i.e. register admin users or as in #24 setup a cluster.

I pushed a preview to the split-run-script branch and add a sample script 20_ejabberd_register_admin.sh to scripts/post. To enable pre/post scripts they need an x flag. Run chmod +x 20_ejabberd_register_admin.sh and build the image.

[dirkmoors]

That looks very nice, I'll give it a go asap!