In the past couple
of posts ive discussed how you can use docker to deploy Gogs (which
we then used as a password manager with Pass), then I blogged about
how you can use it to roll out OpenVPN very easily, and I wrapped up
how we can use Docker to deploy Bind to block ad-servers. They were
pretty short posts, and that in some ways lends itself to how easy
Docker is to do deployments. I've said it a lot of times that Docker
is like a cross between, Git, apt-get, and Vbox. I'm going to
continue this run with a few other blogs this week about other
day-to-day services that people may find useful.
So lets start this
week off with XMPP, or more to the point Openfire. With Openfire,
you can have your own private XMPP server for chat. Openfire is a
pretty easy to use server which is even easier to deploy using
Docker. Within a few commands you will be able to have your own chat
server which can communicate with the rest of the world, but under
your control.
As usual you'll need
to make sure you have Docker installed. If you don't have it
installed then please either visit https://docker.com
or use a search engine to find guide for your OS.
We're going to use
the great work of Sameersbn again
(https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-openfire),
and i'd also suggest either using a Dynamic-DNS service like these
people https://nsupdate.info/
(they offer instructions on how to update your sub-domain to your IP
address, you'll need it later when you configure Openfire) or buy
yourself a domain name, they're pretty cheap after.
So we're going to
pull the openfire image down from the the docker hub, however feel
free to build the image yourself ('$ docker build -t' ).
So here we go
$ docker run --name openfire -d --restart=always \ --publish 9090:9090 --publish 5222:5222 --publish 7777:7777 \ --volume /srv/docker/openfire:/var/lib/openfire \ sameersbn/openfire
and there you have it, you've just installed and deployed Openfire in
a single command. Now all you need to do is configure it. Go to
http://127.0.0.1:9090 and follow the install instructions. You'll
find a folder on your host system at /srv/docker/openfire with the
configuration details if you ever need access to them. Remember
you'll need to set up port forwarding on your firewall/router to be
able to communicate with the outside world. If you're looking for a
client for your Android phone my I suggest grabbing Conversation
(https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=eu.siacs.conversations)
it's pretty nice. Also its worth mentioning Openfire has plugins,
you could use those plugins to install Kraken which will give you a
Facebook and GTalk transport as well. Which the tl;dr of that is,
you can have Facebook IM's and GTalk i'm all rolled in to a single
account.
Hope some of you
find interest in this post
Finux Xx
