Containerizing ContentBox CMS

Containerizing
ContentBox CMS
Gavin Pickin

Who am I?
● Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
● Work with ColdBox, CommandBox, ContentBox every day
● Working with Coldfusion for 20 years
● Working with Javascript just as long
● Love learning and sharing the lessons learned
● From New Zealand, live in Bakersfield, Ca
● Loving wife, lots of kids, and countless critters
http://www.gpickin.com and @gpickin on twitter
http://www.ortussolutions.com

Docker Images
● Ortus Solutions has built and supports a few docker images, the most
common and popular
○ ortussolutions/commandbox
https://hub.docker.com/r/ortussolutions/commandbox/
● Ortus Solutions has built one especially for ContentBox
○ Adds several bells and whistles to help get your ContentBox app ready to deploy to docker
○ ContentBox Image updated for Version 4.0 release.

CommandBox Docker Image
https://hub.docker.com/r/ortussolutions/commandbox/
● Gives you commandbox, ready to go.
● Run any CF Engine or WAR file
● Use CFConfig to configure your cfml engine
● Use environment values for overrides
● Put your files in the /app directory and start the server of your choice
Your app is yours, and how you set it up, config it, is all up to you.

ContentBox Docker Image
https://hub.docker.com/r/ortussolutions/contentbox/
ContentBox’s image is built upon CommandBox, so it’s everything plus:
● Datasource config
● Distributed caching for content, rss etc
● Environment Overrides for ContentBox settings
● Embedded H2 DB support
● And more

Use PORTAINER
https://portainer.io/
Awesome, Free Opensource
Kiwi Powered :)

ContentBox Image - Express version
● The express version uses an in memory H2 database.
● Perfect for setting up for testing.
● If you start with the express=true and install=true you can install a fresh
contentbox site into the H2 database
docker run -p 8080:8080
-e express=true
-e install=true
ortussolutions/contentbox

ContentBox Image - Persisting Data
Docker doesn’t care about your data / files.
If you want to keep it, persist it.
Here we mount 2 volumes into the H2 data folder and the media folder
-e express=true
-e install=true
-v `pwd`/contentbox-db:/data/contentbox/db
-v `pwd`/contentbox-media:/app/includes/shared/media

ContentBox Image - Environment Variables
This image allows you to pass in a series of environment variables to default your
values when installing ContentBox
● Express
● Install
● HEALTHCHECK_URI
● FWREINIT_PW
● SESSION_STORAGE
● DISTRIBUTED_CACHE
● H2_DIR
● contentbox_default_*
● ORM_SECONDARY_CACHE
● ORM_DIALECT
● REMOVE_CBADMIN
● JVM_HEAPSIZE

ContentBox Image - Database Connections
● To programmatically configure the database on container start, environment
variables which represent your datasource configuration should be provided.
There are two patterns supported:
○ DB_DRIVER configuration - which may be used for Adobe Coldfusion servers
○ DB_CLASS configuration - which configures a datasource by JDBC driver and
connection string.

MYSQL Setup
-e 'express=true'
-e 'installer=true'
-e 'cfconfig_adminPassword=myS3cur3P455'
-e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://mysqlhost:3306/contentbox_docker?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UT
F-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true"
-e 'DB_CLASS=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'
-e 'DB_USER=contentbox_user'
-e 'DB_PASSWORD=myS3cur3P455'

MSSQL Setup on Adobe
-e 'CFENGINE=adobe@11'
-e 'installer=true'
-e 'cfconfig_adminPassword=myS3cur3P455'
-e 'DB_DRIVER=MSSQLServer'
-e 'DB_HOST=sqlserver_host'
-e 'DB_PORT=1433'
-e 'DB_NAME=contentbox_docker'
-e 'DB_USER=sa'
-e 'DB_PASSWORD=myS3cur3P455'

ContentBox Image - Distributed Cache
● By default, this image is configured to use the connected database as a caching
storage as well. This will allow you to distribute your stack with pseudo-caching
enabled.
● However, if you would like to have a real distributed cache like Redis or Couchbase
connected to your images, you will need to use the appropriate CacheBox providers
and your own custom CacheBox.cfc configuration file. For an example of using Redis,
check out our compose repository: https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/docker-
contentbox-distributed

What if I have a ContentBox site already?
Two Options
● Extract your changes from your old site and mount/copy them into
ContentBox’s Docker Image - let’s look at that first
● Update your existing site to use some ContentBox Docker Image magic -
we’ll look at this in a little while

Let’s startup a site with ContentBox image
● docker run -p 8888:8080
-e 'INSTALL=true'
-e 'CFCONFIG_ADMINPASSWORD=guardians'
-e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://itb.cloudgq.com:3306/thor?useUnicode=tru
e&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true"
-e 'DB_USER=thor
-e 'DB_PASSWORD=topsecret’
http://127.0.0.1:8888/

Folder Structure - Where are my Files?
Working with Docker where everything is in the image already is a little weird to
say the least.
You only need what is different in your local files
● Mount the persistent files as a volume
● Mount / Copy the Changes

Let’s add our Media into the Image
-e 'INSTALL=true' -e 'CFCONFIG_ADMINPASSWORD=guardians' -e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://itb.cloudgq.com:3306/thor?useUnicode=true&cha
racterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true"
-e 'DB_USER=thor
-e 'DB_PASSWORD=topsecret’
-v c:/www/contentbox-zero-to-hero/media:/app/includes/shared/media
http://127.0.0.1:8888

Let’s add our ContentBox-Custom folder into the
Image
-e 'INSTALL=true' -e 'CFCONFIG_ADMINPASSWORD=guardians' -e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://itb.cloudgq.com:3306/starlord?useUnicode=true&am
p;characterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true"
-e 'DB_USER=starlord'
-e 'DB_PASSWORD=starlord'
-v c:/www/contentbox-zero-to-hero/media:/app/includes/shared/media -v C:/www/contentbox-
zero-to-hero/itb-1/modules_app/contentbox-custom:/app/modules_app/contentbox-custom
http://127.0.0.1:8888/

Live coding moment of truth
Deploy to the Cloud!!!!
Want to try it out, use my link and get $100 in credit to play with
https://m.do.co/c/7fd11f7cfdf2

First, we need to get the files to the server.
Lets just use SSH Copy for now, or FTP, because that’s how it’s done, right?
We’ll upload them into /contentbox-zero-to-hero
/contentbox-hero-to-zero/media
/contentbox-hero-to-zero/itb-1/modules_app/contentbox-custom

docker run -p 8888:8080 -e 'INSTALL=true' -e 'CFCONFIG_ADMINPASSWORD=guardians' -e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://itb.cloudgq.com:3306/starlord?useUnicode=true&char
acterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true" -e 'DB_CLASS=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver' -e
'DB_USER=starlord' -e 'DB_PASSWORD=starlord' -v /contentbox-zero-to-
hero/media:/app/includes/shared/media -v /contentbox-zero-to-hero/itb-1/modules_app/contentbox-
custom:/app/modules_app/contentbox-custom ortussolutions/contentbox
http://dockerdemo.cloudgq.com:8888

Clustering your Docker Images
That’s what Docker is great for… and Docker Swarm is a great way to get
started.
Things to Consider
Files - Any files you have would need to be persisted to a shared drive between servers,
block storage on Digital ocean works great here ( show example )
Sessions - Sessions are usually stored in the server memory, more servers means more
memory not the same memory.

Baking your code into Docker Images
Having to share your code on every server, or putting it on a shared drive is not
a good workflow.
Your code should only change when you deploy a new version.
Things that change in your app, need to be separated like Media, etc
So lets build a docker image with our Content.

Docker File
FROM ortussolutions/contentbox
COPY modules_app/contentbox-custom /app/modules_app/contentbox-custom

Build a Docker Image with Docker File
docker build -t gpickin/itb-docker-demo:20190503.0.1 .

Push our Docker image to Docker Hub
docker push gpickin/itb-docker-demo:20190503.0.1

Docker Run with our Built Image locally
docker run -p 8888:8080 -e 'INSTALL=true' -e
'CFCONFIG_ADMINPASSWORD=guardians' -e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://itb.cloudgq.com:3306/starlord?useUnicode=tru
e&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true" -e
'DB_CLASS=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver' -e 'DB_USER=starlord' -e
'DB_PASSWORD=starlord' -v c:/www/contentbox-zero-to-
hero/media:/app/includes/shared/media gpickin/itb-docker-demo:20190503.0.1

Docker Run with our Built Image on DO
docker run -p 8888:8080 -e 'INSTALL=true' -e
'CFCONFIG_ADMINPASSWORD=guardians' -e
"DB_CONNECTION_STRING=jdbc:mysql://itb.cloudgq.com:3306/starlord?useUnicode=tru
e&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useLegacyDatetimeCode=true" -e
'DB_CLASS=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver' -e 'DB_USER=starlord' -e
'DB_PASSWORD=starlord' -v /contentbox-zero-to-hero/media:/app/includes/shared/media
-v /contentbox-zero-to-hero/itb-1/modules_app/contentbox-
custom:/app/modules_app/contentbox-custom gpickin/itb-docker-demo:20190503.0.1

Want More?
Docker Mastery Course - https://www.udemy.com/docker-mastery/
Ortus Solutions Website - https://www.ortussolutions.com/events
Slack Channel - http://boxteam.herokuapp.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ortussolutions/
CF Summit 2019 ( Las Vegas ) - Talk to us about a Training after the conference

Thanks
Thanks everyone
There are a few more great sessions left, don’t miss out.
Hope to see you all next year at Into the Box
And CF Summit later in the year
Travel Safe

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