updated weewx-docker repo on github

[Vince Skahan]

https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-docker

Changes from the previous major version in GitHub:

• support debian 10 and ubuntu 20.04
• both using v4 dpkg packages for weewx
• as always in Simulator mode
• with the tree very much reorganized

To build and run:

• git clone the repo above
• cd in there
• docker-compose build
• docker-compose up -d

One thing I've found with v4 is that it seems to require an active syslog daemon on the runtime host.  This was a little painful in Docker, as both debian(ish) variants omit this. I added rsyslogd to handle this, with supervisor handling starting the two processes (rsyslog and weewx) in the weewx container.  Works ok for me.

Docker-compose is set to start up a nginx container for each weewx instance, listening on a specified port.   Persistent storage is in /var/tmp to not clutter up things.   See the readme file in the repo above for details.

Coming when I get around to it:

• add support for centos variants supported by weewx v4 packages
• add support for building any/all os variants via setup.py rather than using the released packages

This is tested on an Intel NUC so your mileage may vary if you're on a raspi (ARM) or other platform that Docker might support, although if there's an official base image for your os, it should work.

[Till Maas]

Hi Vince,

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Vince Skahan wrote:
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> https://github.com/vinceskahan/weewx-docker

thank you. This is interesting. What is the purpose of this? It seems to
be meant for testing, is this correct?

Does this allow to test drivers/extensions/skins, too?

Thank you
Till

[Vince Skahan]

You could use this as a starting point to build your own container to test things, fiddle around, or run your production weewx containerized.  Folks use containers to do all of the above.