- Use a `uv:python` image for the first build layer, to reduce the
number of intermediate images required, as the
main Dockerfile uses that image already
- Use a cache mount for `apt` commands
- Skip a pointless install of `redis-server`, since the redis Docker
image is copied from instead
- Move some RUN steps out of the final image layer & into the build
layer
Depends on https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/18275
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* Fully qualified docker image names for the main Dockerfile and Complement related.
* Fully qualified docker image names for Dockerfiles associated with building Debian release artifacts.
This one is harder and is separate from the other commit in case it wasn't correct or was unwanted. I decided to
do the expansion on the docker images in the Dockerfile itself, instead of the various source places that build
which distribution that is selected, as it would have been more invasive with the scripts breaking up the string
for tagging and such. This one is untested.
* Changelog
* Update docker/Dockerfile-workers
* Update docker/complement/Dockerfile
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Co-authored-by: reivilibre <olivier@librepush.net>
Part of my continuing quest to make the docker images build quicker: copy nginx and redis in from base docker images, rather than apt installing each time.
This PR adds a Dockerfile and some supporting files to the `docker/` directory. The Dockerfile's intention is to spin up a container with:
* A Synapse main process.
* Any desired worker processes, defined by a `SYNAPSE_WORKERS` environment variable supplied at runtime.
* A redis for worker communication.
* A nginx for routing traffic.
* A supervisord to start all worker processes and monitor them if any go down.
Note that **this is not currently intended to be used in production**. If you'd like to use Synapse workers with Docker, instead make use of the official image, with one worker per container. The purpose of this dockerfile is currently to allow testing Synapse in worker mode with the [Complement](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/) test suite.
`configure_workers_and_start.py` is where most of the magic happens in this PR. It reads from environment variables (documented in the file) and creates all necessary config files for the processes. It is the entrypoint of the Dockerfile, and thus is run any time the docker container is spun up, recreating all config files in case you want to use a different set of workers. One can specify which workers they'd like to use by setting the `SYNAPSE_WORKERS` environment variable (as a comma-separated list of arbitrary worker names) or by setting it to `*` for all worker processes. We will be using the latter in CI.
Huge thanks to @MatMaul for helping get this all working 🎉 This PR is paired with its equivalent on the Complement side: https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/pull/62.
Note, for the purpose of testing this PR before it's merged: You'll need to (re)build the base Synapse docker image for everything to work (`matrixdotorg/synapse:latest`). Then build the worker-based docker image on top (`matrixdotorg/synapse:workers`).
