beapen/development-meteor repository overview

⁠development-meteor - Docker Runtime for non packaged Meteor Apps

This image is made to run Meteor apps as you would run them locally with meteor. It is basically a Node Image with Meteor preinstalled.

This would allow you to deploy a debug version of your app on your server and share it with your team/testers.

To use you would need to add the following to a Dockerfile in your Meteor app's root directory:

FROM tzapu/development-meteor:1.4.1
WORKDIR /opt/app/
ADD . /opt/app/
RUN meteor npm install
CMD meteor;

What this does is:

• get the development-meteor image with Meteor version 1.4.1 (will try to provide up to date Meteor versions. you can also use latest)
• sets the working directory
• copies all your source files to the working directory
• installs all your package.json dependencies
• finally runs Meteor

It is recommended you have a .dockerignore file at the same level as your Dockerfile, containing:

node_modules
.meteor/dev_bundle
.meteor/local

To build you would then issue a command like

sudo docker build -t user/image-name .

When you are running this image, do not forget to map a port to internal port 3000 on which Meter's built in webserver will run. Sample run command:

sudo docker run -d
  -e MAIL_URL=smtp://[email protected]:[email protected]:587
  -p 80:3000
  --name container-name user/image-name'

I hope you find it useful.