Wha's the preferred way of installing modules ? about docker-ejabberd HOT 2 CLOSED

@rroemhild

Here's a solution I have experimented with:

    docker run -d \
        --name "ejabberd" \
        -p 5222:5222 \
        -p 5269:5269 \
        -p 5280:5280 \
        -h 'xmpp.example.de' \
        -e "XMPP_DOMAIN=example.de" \
        -e "ERLANG_NODE=ejabberd" \
        -e "[email protected] [email protected]" \
        -e "[email protected]:password1234 [email protected]" \
        -e "TZ=Europe/Berlin" \
        -e "EJABBERD_SOURCE_MODULES=mod_hello_world mod_foo_bar" \
        -v /tmp/modules_to_install:/opt/ejabberd/module_source \
        rroemhild/ejabberd

Note the new environment variable above, EJABBERD_SOURCE_MODULES. The value of this variable are module names, separated by space. This allows a post processing script to iterate over $EJABBERD_SOURCE_MODULES. For each of the module names found inside $EJABBERD_SOURCE_MODULES, the post processing script can attempt to copy the module folder from the folder $EJABBERD_HOME/module_source/ into the ejabberd modules folder. After the copy occurs, ejabberdctl module_check $module_name can be performed, and if that succeeds, $ejabberdctl module_install $module_name can be performed.

tldr;
A new environment variable (EJABBERD_SOURCE_MODULES) defines modules which should be copied from a shared volume and installed into ejabberd.

from docker-ejabberd.

I've been testing the approach above and found it to be working very well. I will submit a PR with the post script.

from docker-ejabberd.