selfhosted-apps-docker/bookstack

Bookstack in docker

guide by example

Purpose

Documentation and notes.

• Official site
• Github
• DockerHub

Files and directory structure

/home/
└── ~/
    └── docker/
        └── bookstack/
            ├── bookstack-data/
            ├── bookstack-db-data/
            ├── .env
            ├── docker-compose.yml
            └── bookstack-backup-script.sh

docker-compose

Dockerhub linuxserver/bookstack example compose.

docker-compose.yml

version: "2"
services:

  bookstack-db:
    image: linuxserver/mariadb
    container_name: bookstack-db
    hostname: bookstack-db
    restart: unless-stopped
    env_file: .env
    volumes:
      - ./bookstack-db-data:/config

  bookstack:
    image: linuxserver/bookstack
    container_name: bookstack
    hostname: bookstack
    restart: unless-stopped
    env_file: .env
    depends_on:
      - bookstack-db
    volumes:
      - ./bookstack-data:/config

networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: $DEFAULT_NETWORK

.env

# GENERAL
MY_DOMAIN=blabla.org
DEFAULT_NETWORK=caddy_net
TZ=Europe/Bratislava

#LINUXSERVER.IO
PUID=1000
PGID=1000

# BOOKSTACK-MARIADB
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=bookstack
MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstack
MYSQL_USER=bookstack
MYSQL_PASSWORD=bookstack

# BOOKSTACK
DB_HOST=bookstack-db
DB_USER=bookstack
DB_PASS=bookstack
DB_DATABASE=bookstack

# USING SENDGRID FOR SENDING EMAILS
APP_URL=https://book.blabla.org
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=465
MAIL_FROM=book@blabla.org
MAIL_USERNAME=apikey
MAIL_PASSWORD=SG.2FA24asaddasdasdasdsadasdasdassadDEMBzuh9e43
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=SSL

All containers must be on the same network.
If one does not exist yet: docker network create caddy_net

Reverse proxy

Caddy v2 is used, details here.

Caddyfile

book.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
    reverse_proxy bookstack:80
}

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Update

• watchtower updates the image automaticly

• manual image update
  docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker image prune

Backup and restore

• backup using BorgBackup setup that makes daily snapshot of the entire directory

• restore
  down the bookstack containers docker-compose down
  delete the entire bookstack directory
  from the backup copy back the bookstack directortory
  start the container docker-compose up -d

Backup of just user data

User-data daily export using the official procedure.
For bookstack it means database dump and backing up several directories containing user uploaded files.

Daily run of BorgBackup takes care of backing up the directories. So only database dump is needed. The created database backup sql file is overwriten on every run of the script, but that's ok since BorgBackup is making daily snapshots.

• create a backup script
  placed inside bookstack directory on the host

  bookstack-backup-script.sh

  #!/bin/bash
  
  # CREATE DATABASE DUMP, bash -c '...' IS USED OTHERWISE OUTPUT > WOULD TRY TO GO TO THE HOST
  docker container exec bookstack-db bash -c 'mysqldump -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE > $MYSQL_DIR/BACKUP.bookstack.database.sql'
  

  the script must be executabe - chmod +x bookstack-backup-script.sh

• cronjob on the host
  crontab -e - add new cron job
  0 2 * * * /home/bastard/docker/bookstack/bookstack-backup-script.sh - run it at 02:00
  crontab -l - list cronjobs

Restore the user data

Assuming clean start, first restore the database before running the app container.

• start only the database container: docker-compose up -d bookstack-db
• copy BACKUP.bookstack.database.sql in bookstack/bookstack-db-data/
• restore the database inside the container
  docker container exec --workdir /config bookstack-db bash -c 'mysql -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE < BACKUP.bookstack.database.sql'
• now start the app container: docker-compose up -d
• let it run so it creates its file structure
• down the containers docker-compose down
• in bookstack/bookstack-data/www/
  replace directories files,images,uploads and the file .env
  with the ones from the BorgBackup repository
• start the containers: docker-compose up -d
• if there was a major version jump, exec in to the app container and run php artisan migrate
docker container exec -it bookstack /bin/bash
cd /var/www/html/
php artisan migrate