Question: Better way to maintain baserow?

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#1

Hi, everyone, I’m new to baserow and am fascinated by this project.

I’m planning to self-host baserow, and I saw different docker-compose files.

I’m pretty good at playing with docker compose. But after read all of them, I’m a bit wary about which one to choose.

In my case, I have another services on my server and they are all reverse-proxyed by one caddy instance and the baserow service should also be placed behind it. Since I think the all-in-all is easier to maintain, how should I configure it such that the caddy inside baserow container will not fetch a Let’s Encrypt certificate?

I would like to ask also if you have reason to prefer one method to another and this could be inspiring for me. Thank you!

#2

Look at docker-compose.no-caddy. There is some information in the comments there:

This compose file runs every service separately without any reverse proxy or http
server to serve user uploaded files. It is intended as a starting point for people
who want to use their own reverse proxy and run Baserow with one service per
container. The web-frontend service is available by default at http://localhost:3000
and the backend service is available by default at http://localhost:8000 .

To use this file you need to:

  1. Set the PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL to the URL that the user’s browser can access the
    backend service on.
  2. Set the PUBLIC_WEB_FRONTEND_URL to the URL that the user’s browser can access the
    web-frontend service on.
  3. Host the media files in the media volume on a HTTP server and set the MEDIA_URL
    to the URL the user’s browser can access the files on.
  4. Ensure requests sent to the backend in /ws path are upgraded to websocket
    connections.
    See the following guides for more details and example configurations:
  5. Installing Baserow behind Nginx // Baserow
  6. Installing Baserow behind Apache // Baserow

Also More documentation can be found in:
https://baserow.io/docs/installation%2Finstall-with-docker-compose

#3

Basically you are doing your own thing if you need to run Baserow alongside other services and want to run compose files yourself.

#4

Thank you for your reply! I’ll check it!