lucastercas/moodle repository overview

⁠Quick reference

• Where to get help: GitHub Issues Page⁠ Oficial Moodle Documentaion⁠

• Maintained by: lucastercas⁠

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• v3.8.3, latest ⁠
• v3.7.6 ⁠

⁠What is Moodle?

Moodle oficial site⁠

⁠How to use this image

⁠Using docker run

$ docker run --rm -it -p 80:80 lucastercas/moodle:latest

This will start an instance of Moodle on port 80 of the host. However, as there is no database, it will crash

⁠Using docker-compose.yml

version: "3.7"
services:
  moodle:
    image: lucastercas/moodle:v3.8.3
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    environments:
      DB_USER: db_user
      DB_PASS: db_pass
      DB_HOST: db
      DB_DRIVER: pgsql
      MOODLE_ADMINPASS: admin_pass

  db:
    image: postgres:13-alpine
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: db_pass
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: db_user
      POSTGRES_DB: moodle

$ docker-compose up

⁠Environment Variables

When you start this moodle image, you have to provide certain environment variables, so it knows where the database is located, as well as certain Moodle parameters.

⁠Moodle configuration variables

1. MOODLE_ADMINUSER: Optional variable, sets the login to use for the administrator account, default is admin_user.
2. MOODLE_ADMINPASS: Password for the administrator account, there is no default.
3. MOODLE_ADMINMAIL: Optional variable, sets the email of the administrator user, default is [email protected].
4. MOODLE_NAME: Optional variable, sets the name of the Moodle instance, default is moodle.
5. MOODLE_WWWROOT: Optional variable, location of the web site, default is http://localhost.
6. MOODLE_DIR: Optional variable, location of Moodle, default is /var/www/html.
7. MOODLE_DATADIR: Optional variables, location of moodledata, default is /var/www/moodledata.

⁠Database configuration variables

1. DB_HOST: Host of the database.
2. DB_USER: User of database.
3. DB_PASS: Password of DB_USER.
4. DB_NAME: Optional variable, name of database that this instance of Moodle will use, default is moodle.
5. DB_DRIVER: Type of driver, it can be pgsql, mariadb, mysqli, sqlsrv or oci, according to the Moodle documentation⁠. Depends on the type of the database on DB_HOST

⁠Extending this image