Nodetube running with podman

Why?

I wanted to get nodetube running on podman and a portable deployment for running in either podman or kubernetes (via podman play, podman generate or kubernetes deployment).

How?

Assumptions

This assumes everything will be checked out in ~/g

cd ~/g

Clone nodetube and nodetube-podman

git clone https://github.com/mayeaux/nodetube
git clone https://github.com/bougyman/nodetube-podman

Build nodetube

cd ~/g/nodetube
podman build -t <NODETUBE_IMAGE_NAME> . (1)

1. The image name can be specified to anything you like

Symlink the nodetube app directory

cd ~/g/nodetube-podman
ln -s ../nodetube ./app

Configure the services

First set the proper working directory (the full path to the clone of nodetube-podman)

echo /path/to/nodetube-podman > /path/to/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube/env/WORKDIR

For our ~g/:

echo ~/g/nodetube-podman > ~/g/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube/env/WORKDIR

Then set the image name you chose in the build step.

echo <NODETUBE_IMAGE_NAME> > ~/g/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube/env/NODETUBE_IMAGE

Optionally Change the pod name from the default (nodetube):

echo <YOUR_PODNAME_CHOICE> > ~/g/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube/env/PODNAME

Run the services

This can be done with a supervisor that supports daemontools/runit style 'run' scripts, or any supervision method you choose. Simply symlink the nodetube/podman/sv/* directories to a supervision directory running as your user.

Manually running services

cd ~/g/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube
./run

And in separate tmux panes, terminals, whatever:

cd ~/g/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube-mongo
./run

cd ~/g/nodetube-podman/sv/nodetube-redis
./run

That’s it, you should be able to access podman at localhost:18080 with the websocket at localhost:18081