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Generate a Database as an image

Introduction

This tool was written for Axelerant specific processes but can be used generally by overriding certain configuration. By default, you wouldn't be able to use this plugin if you cannot access Axelerant's GitLab repository. You may use it with your own Docker image registry or even with Docker Hub.

Prerequisites

Reasonably updated version of composer with recent version of PHP. Tested with composer 1.10.1 and composer 2+.
Recent version of Docker.

Optional requirements (only for default workflow)

By default, this plugin generates the image with name prefixed with Axelerant's Docker registry. The below requirements apply if you don't override the image name using configuration in composer.json.

Ability to clone from gitorious.xyz.
Logged in to Axelerant's GitLab Container Registry. To verify, run docker login registry.gitorious.xyz. Optional if you use the --no-push option.

Installation

Install with composer into any Drupal project.

composer require --dev axelerant/db-docker

Usage

Options may be specified using the command line or by specifying them in the extra section in your composer.json file. See the section below on Configuration for more details.

$ composer db-docker --help
Usage:
  db-docker [options]

Options:
  -t, --docker-tag[=DOCKER-TAG]  The Docker tag to build
  -r, --git-remote[=GIT-REMOTE]  The git remote to use to determine the image name
  -s, --db-source[=DB-SOURCE]    Source of the database ("lando", "drush", or "file")
  -f, --db-file[=DB-FILE]        The path to the database file (required if db-source is set to file)
      --no-push                  Set to not push the image after building
  -h, --help                     Display this help message
  -q, --quiet                    Do not output any message
  -V, --version                  Display this application version
      --ansi                     Force ANSI output
      --no-ansi                  Disable ANSI output
  -n, --no-interaction           Do not ask any interactive question
      --profile                  Display timing and memory usage information
      --no-plugins               Whether to disable plugins.
  -d, --working-dir=WORKING-DIR  If specified, use the given directory as working directory.
      --no-cache                 Prevent use of the cache
  -v|vv|vvv, --verbose           Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug

Help:
  Generate a Docker image for the database.

Warning: The above usage is generated by running composer db-docker --help and is generated by composer. Some options such as --no-plugins are not compatible. The option --no-plugins tells composer not to load any plugins, which means that db-docker won't be loaded at all.

Examples

To let the plugin guess defaults, build the image, and push it.

composer db-docker

To explicitly specify a SQL file to build the image.

composer db-docker --db-source=file --db-file=<filename> # The file can either be plain SQL or gzipped.

Configuration

The plugin also supports configuration via composer.json extra section.

{
    "name": "drupal/site",
    // ...
    "require": {
        // ...
    },
    "require-dev": {
        // ...
        "axelerant/db-docker": "^1.0"
    },
    "extra": {
        "dbdocker": {
            "docker-image-name": "auto",
            "docker-tag": "auto",
            "docker-base": {
                "base-flavor": "bitnami",
                "image": "bitnami/mariadb:10.4",
                "user": "drupal8",
                "password": "drupal8",
                "database": "drupal8"
            },
            "git-remote": "origin",
            "db-source": "",
            "no-push": false
        }
    }
}

These options work the same way as the options available via the command line. Option values specified on the command line take precedence followed by the options in the extra section of composer.json. Finally, values are guessed as described below.

Image details

By default, the image name and tag will be guessed using the method described below in the Default Options section. You can override both of them using the docker-image-name and docker-tag settings in the configuration in composer.json as shown above. Additionally, you may also specify the docker-tag via the command line.

Base image

You can use the docker-base configuration to specify the base image to use to build the database image. When not specified, the default image used is Bitnami's MariaDB 10.4 image with default access details which is compatible with Lando's Drupal 8 recipe. You may override this to fit in your workflow as desired.

The base image details cannot be customized from the command line. They must be specified via the composer.json's extra section.

DDEV base image

The defaults for docker-base depend on the value of base-flavor setting. By default, the base-flavor is set to bitnami and the defaults are set as above. However, if base-flavor is ddev, the defaults change to the following:

{
    "extra": {
        "dbdocker": {
            "docker-base": {
                "base-flavor": "ddev",
                "image": "drud/ddev-dbserver-mariadb-10.4:v1.17.0",
                "user": "db",
                "password": "db",
                "database": "db"
            }
        }
    }
}

These are the defaults required for building database images compatible for DDEV.

Default options

The plugin tries to guess most values for input to correctly select the source, build the image, and push it.

Determining the image name

The image name can be specified using the docker-image-name in composer.json as described above. If not specified (or set to "auto"), the image name is constructed from the git repository.

The image name is determined based on the git repository's origin remote (overridable using the --git-remote option). The remote URL should be a Git URL (not a HTTP URL) of type git@gitorious.xyz:<group>/<project>.git. For this, it would determine the image name registry.gitorious.xyz/<group>/<project>/db. See the next section for the image tag.

It's important to note that the image name is constructed only for Axelerant Gitlab repositories. If you want to use another Docker registry (such as Docker Hub or Quay.io), please use the option in composer.json to specify the proper name.

Determining the image tag

The image tag, unless specified with the --docker-tag option, is assumed to be the current branch name. If the current branch is master, the image tag is used as latest.

Determining the database source

These database sources are supported: file, lando, ddev, and drush. The source can be explicitly specified using the --db-source option. If not specified, the following rules are used to determine the source.

If the --db-file option is present, then the source is set as file.
If a file called .lando.yml is present, then the source is set as lando.
- As an exception to above, the plugin attempts to detect if it is running inside a lando container. If so, the source is set to drush.
If a directory called .ddev is present, then the source is set as ddev.
- As an exception to above, the plugin attempts to detect if it is running inside a DDEV container. If so, the source is set to drush.
If the above conditions fail, then the source is assumed to be drush.

In case the source is lando, ddev, or drush, the drush sql:dump command is used to obtain the SQL file. If the source is lando or ddev, then the drush command is executed inside the relevant container like so: lando drush ... or ddev drush ....

Reporting problems

If you see a bug or an improvement, create a pull request. For support, raise a request on Axelerant Slack #internal-support channel.

axelerant / db-docker

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