For business it’s sometime important to have a central place where employees and clients are able to interact together. NextCloud is a simple and extendable PHP solution with a huge set of features you can host by yourself, to keep full control of your data. A classical Groupware ready for your own cloud.
If you want to install NextCloud on your own server you need as first a well working PHP installation with a HTTP Server like Apache. Also a Database Management System is mandatory. You can chose between MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL servers. The classical way to install and configure all those components takes a lot of time and the maintenance is very difficult. To overcome all this we use a modern approach with the virtualization tool docker.
The system setup is as the following: Ubuntu x64 Server, PostgreSQL Database, pgAdmin DBMS Management and NextCloud.
Agenda
- Docker Basics
- Installing Docker on a Ubuntu server
- prepare your database
- putting all together and make it run
- insights to operate NextCloud
Docker Container Instructions
# create network
docker network create -d bridge --subnet=172.18.0.0/16 service
# postures database server
docker run -d --name postgres --restart=always \
--net service --ip 172.18.0.2 \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=s3cr3t \
-e PGPASSWORD=s3cr3t \
-v /home/ed/postgres/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
postgres:11.1
# copy files from container to host system
docker cp postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data /home/ed/postgres
# pgAdmin administration tool
docker run -d --name pgadmin --restart=no \
-p 8004:80 --net services --ip 172.18.0.3 \
-e PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL=account@sample.com \
-e PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=s3cr3t \
dpage/pgadmin4:5.4
# nextcloud container
docker run -d --name nextcloud --restart=always \
-p 8080:80 --net services --ip 172.18.0.4 \
-v /home/ed/_TEMP_/nextcloud:/var/www/html \
-e POSTGRES_DB=nextcloud \
-e POSTGRES_USER=nextcloud \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=nextcloud \
-e POSTGRES_HOST=172.18.0.2 \
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