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Creating Dockerfile for Typesense with Environment Variables

TLDR andrew inquired about creating an ideal Dockerfile for Typesense. Jason provided instructions on how to set it up properly, also mentioning that environment variables are documented on their official webpage. After testing these instructions, andrew indeed managed to make it work using Railway.

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Jan 25, 2023 (11 months ago)

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andrew

04:14 PM

Hi there me again. Just checking but what does an ideal dockefile including envs look like for typesense? I am still trying to explore fly.io but also just found railway.

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Jason

10:11 PM

There’s no standard dockerfile per se, because you should be able to use our published docker container without any modifications

10:11

Jason

10:11 PM

All the environment variables are documented at the top of this page: https://typesense.org/docs/0.23.1/api/server-configuration.html#using-a-configuration-file

andrew

10:14 PM

Jason if I provided no command line args, will it default to the ini file. Reason I am asking is most of the documentation is on passing arguements to docker run instead of a docker file, so i run into issues setup the data dir and etc. I am thinking maybe I could do a copy

Jason

10:21 PM

No, it doesn’t default to the ini file. You still need to pass in a command line argument to the typesense process running inside the docker container, indicating the location of the ini file

10:25

Jason

10:25 PM

Could you try something like this:

FROM typesense/typesense:0.24.0.rcn58
RUN mkdir -p /etc/typesense
COPY typesense-server.ini /etc/typesense
EXPOSE 8108
ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/typesense-server", "--config=/etc/typesense/typesense-server.ini"]

10:26

Jason

10:26 PM

You’d need to have a file called typesense-server.ini in the same directory as this dockerfile

andrew

10:29 PM

Let me try it

Jan 26, 2023 (10 months ago)

andrew

12:26 AM

Got it working with Railway!

12:26

andrew

12:26 AM

But not sure if they have persistent storage..

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