We are using docker and docker-compose to provide as consistent a local development environment as possible, in accordance with 12factor development principles.

System Requirements

Firstly, check you have all the requirements on your system. For Linux users, these are either preinstalled or available through your distribution's package manager.

• ​git​

• ​make - Instructions for installing make vary, for MacOS users xcode-select --install might work

• ​docker​

• ​docker-compose - This should be installed along with docker on OSX and Windows

• ​envsubst - This should be pre-installed on most Linux distributions

  • On MacOS, envsubst is installed as part of gettex. Install like this:

  brew install gettext
  brew link --force gettext

• ​unzip​

Platform specific steps

sudo apt install -y git make unzip apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

su - ${USER}

docker run hello-world

wsl -l -v

wsl --set-version Ubuntu-18.04 2

sudo apt remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable"

sudo apt update

apt-cache policy docker-ce

docker-ce:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 18.03.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu
  Version table:
     18.03.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu 500
        500 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic/stable amd64 Packages

sudo apt install docker-ce

sudo service docker status

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

su - ${USER}

id -nG

youruser sudo docker

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/[THE DOCKER VERSION]/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.5/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo apt install -y make unzip

wsl --set-version Ubuntu-18.04 2

The command 'docker-compose' could not be found in this WSL 2 distro.
We recommend to activate the WSL integration in Docker Desktop settings.

@therealkenc, @squeaky-pl Could you try this?
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%userprofile%\.wslconfig
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[wsl2]
kernelCommandLine = vsyscall=emulate

Contribution Requirements

The following dependencies are required only if you want to contribute to the docker-composer repository:

• ​shellcheck​

• ​yamllint​

• ​circleci​

First run

The first time you'll need to follow the steps below, in order to clone this repo and build the containers.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/greenpeace/planet4-docker-compose
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# Navigate to new directory
cd planet4-docker-compose
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# Build containers, start and configure the application
make dev

See Fixing make dev errors if you have any issues with this command.

If you want the application repositories to be cloned using ssh protocol, instead of https, you can use a variable:

GIT_PROTO="ssh" make dev

or for a more permanent solution, add to a file Makefile.include:

GIT_PROTO := 'ssh'

If you want to run docker-compose commands directly:

# View status of containers
docker-compose ps
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# View log output
docker-compose logs -f

On first launch, the container bootstraps the installation with composer then after a few minutes all services will be ready and responding to requests.

When the terminal is finished, and you see the line 'ready', navigate to www.planet4.test.

It's not necessary to re-run make dev each time you wish to start the local development environment. To start containers on subsequent runs, use:

make run

Full environment

In order to keep the environment light, the default setup skips some containers that are useful for debugging and testing. Namely: PhpMyAdmin, ElasticHQ and Selenium. If you need them, you can use the full environment config by setting an environment variable:

COMPOSE_FILE="docker-compose.full.yml" make run

For a more permanent solution, edit a file .env and change the variable there:

COMPOSE_FILE="docker-compose.full.yml"

Troubleshooting

To view the output of running containers:

docker-compose logs

If at any point the install process fails, with Composer showing a message such as file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found), this is a transient network error and re-running the install should fix the issue.

Fixing make dev errors

Then, when running make dev, if you get the following error:

ERROR: for traefik  Cannot start service traefik: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint planet4dockercompose_traefik_1 (f7c7a3eded69b5451a6e2e45d13ab312c2a2e809ce5cd69994119368294ec478): Bind for 0.0.0.0:8080 failed: port is already allocated
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.
make[1]: *** [up] Error 1
make: *** [run] Error 2

This error means that there is a process that is already registered to use port 8080. It is most likely a running docker container that is using this port, but to check, run this command:

lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN | grep 8080

If result will be something like this:

com.docke  5086 <USERNAME>   84u  IPv6 0xdc100c215fbb6b93      0t0  TCP *:8080 (LISTEN)

That's a docker container. (If it is a different process owning the port, you could run kill -9 <PID>).

To check which container is using this port you can run:

$ docker container ls | grep 8080
<CONTAINER_ID>   containers.xxx.com/my-container:1.1          "/entrypoint.sh /usr…"   2 months ago    Up 10 minutes             0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp                           my-container_1

To stop the container, run:

docker kill <CONTAINER_ID>

Then re-run make dev and it should be fine. If it still doesn't work, then raise an issue.

Stop

To stop all the containers just run:

make stop

Updating

To update all containers, run:

make run

Other commands are listed under:

make help

Editing source code

By default, the Wordpress application is bind-mounted at:

./persistence/app/

All planet4 code will be under the Wordpress' content folder:

./persistence/app/public/wp-content/

Logging in

Administrator login

Backend administrator login is available at www.planet4.test/wp-admin/.

Login username is admin and the password is admin.

Database access via phpMyAdmin

​phpmyadmin login: pma.www.planet4.test​

Elasticsearch access via ElasticHQ

​elastichq Access at localhost:5000/​

NRO sites

You can also use this setup to work on an NRO site.

First, create/edit Makefile.include to contain:

NRO_REPO := https://github.com/greenpeace/planet4-netherlands.git
NRO_THEME := planet4-child-theme-netherlands
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# optionally specify a branch, will default to "main" otherwise
#NRO_BRANCH := my-other-branch
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# by default it will test against your local docker-compose setup version
# but you can optionally specify these variables to run the tests against
# a deployed environment
#NRO_APP_HOSTNAME := k8s.p4.greenpeace.org
#NRO_APP_HOSTPATH := nl

Then enable the NRO:

make nro-enable

And, run the tests:

make nro-test-codeception

The tests work a bit differently to the main ones, see the Testing section for more info.

Advanced features

Production Containers

To run production containers locally, it's necessary to define two environment variables and then run make appdata. This tells docker-compose which containers to use, and then copies the contents of the /app/source directory to the local persistence folder.

Example:

# Change these variables to the container images you wish to run
export APP_IMAGE=gcr.io/planet-4-151612/planet4-flibble-app:develop
export OPENRESTY_IMAGE=gcr.io/planet-4-151612/planet4-flibble-openresty:develop
# Copy contents of container /app/source into local persistence folder
make appdata
# Bring up container suite
make run

From here, you can download a database export from GCS (for example) and visit phpMyAdmin to perform the import.

Default Content

Import default content

The default content is imported automatically for you.

Troubleshooting

If you want to revert back to the default content database you can delete the database container and volume and recreate:

make revertdb
# ... wait for a bit ...
make config flush

Clear caches

To completely clear redis of the full page cache, as well as object and transient caches:

make flush

Alternatively, to only clear the object cache: Login to Wordpress admin and click on Flush Object Cache on the Dashboard page. To only clear the full page cache: click Purge Cache from the top menu.

FastCGI cache purges

The Wordpress plugin nginx-helper is installed to enable FastCGI cache purges. Log in to the backend as above, navigate to Settings > Nginx Helper and click:

• Enable Purge

• Redis Cache

• Enter redis in the Hostname field

• Tick all checkboxes under 'Purging Conditions'

Timber / Twig caches

Templates cache should be disabled in development mode. It can be cleared by running a wp command: docker-compose exec php-fpm sh -c 'wp timber clear_caches'

This command will return a warning if timber or twig cache were already empty.

WP-Stateless GCS bucket

If you want to use the Google Cloud Storage you'll have to configure WP-Stateless. The plugin is installed and activated, however images will be stored locally until remote GCS storage is enabled in the administrator backend. Log in with details gathered from here and navigate to Media > Stateless Setup.

You will need a Google account with access to GCS buckets to continue.

Once logged in:

• Click 'Get Started Now'

• Authenticate

• Choose 'Planet-4' project (or a custom project from your private account)

• Choose or create a Google Cloud Bucket - it's recommended to use a bucket name unique to your own circumstances, eg 'mynamehere-test-planet4-wordpress'

• Choose a region close to your work environment

• Skip creating a billing account (if using Greenpeace Planet 4 project)

• Click continue, and wait a little while for all necessary permissions and object to be created.

Congratulations, you're now serving media files directly from GCS buckets!

ElasticSearch indexing

The Elasticsearch host is configured during initial build. But if you want to confirm that the setting is right, navigate to Settings > ElasticPress > Settings. The Host should be: http://elasticsearch:9200.

Anytime you want to re-index Elasticsearch you can just run: make elastic.

Environment variables

This docker environment relies on the mysql official image as well as on the planet4-base application image.

Both images provide environment variables which adjust aspects of the runtime configuration. For this environment to run only the database parameters such as hostname, database name, database users and passwords are required.

Initial values for this environment variables are dummy but are good to go for development purposes. They can be changed in the provided app.env and db.env files, or directly in the docker-compose.yml file itself.

Some useful variables

See openresty-php-exim​

• NEWRELIC_LICENSE set to the license key in your NewRelic dashboard to automatically receive server and application metrics

• PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT maximum memory each PHP process can consume before being terminated and restarted by the scheduler

• PHP_XDEBUG_REMOTE_HOST in development mode enables remote XDebug debugging, tracing and profiling

Development mode

@todo: Document some of the useful builtin configuration options available in upstream docker images for debugging, including:

• XDebug remote debugging

• Smarthost email delivery and interception

• exec function limits

• Memory and performance tweaks

XDebug and IDE configuration

Install XDebug on the PHP container by running:

make dev-install-xdebug

Switch XDebug mode with xdebug-mode command and an environment variable:

XDEBUG_MODE=debug,profile make xdebug-mode

IDE specific configuration

# Root of your project is planet4-docker-compose/persistence/app :
      "pathMappings": {
        "/app/source/public": "${workspaceFolder}/public"
      }
# Root of your project is planet4-docker-compose:
      "pathMappings": {
        "/app/source/public": "${workspaceFolder}/persistence/app/public"
      }

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Listen for XDebug",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "port": 9000,
            "pathMappings": {
              "/app/source/public": "${workspaceFolder}/public"
            },
            "log": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Launch currently open script",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${file}",
            "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
            "port": 9000
        }
    ]
}

Port conflicts

If you are running any other services on your local device which respond on port 80, you may experience errors attempting to start the environment. Traefik is configured to respond on port 80 in this application, but you can change it by editing the docker-compose.yml file as below:

  traefik:
    ports:
      - "8000:80"

The first number is the port number on your host, the second number is mapped to port 80 on the openresty service container. Now you can access the site at www.planet4.test:8000 instead.

A more robust solution for hosting multiple services on port 80 is to use a reverse proxy such as Traefik or jwilder/openresty-proxy in a separate project, and use Docker named networking features to isolate virtual networks.

Traefik administration

Traefik comes with a simple admin interface accessible at www.planet4.test:8080.