sameersbn/akaunting repository overview

⁠sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9

• Introduction⁠
  • Contributing⁠
  • Issues⁠
• Getting started⁠
  • Installation⁠
  • Quickstart⁠
  • Persistence⁠
• Maintenance⁠
  • Creating backups⁠
  • Restoring backups⁠
  • Upgrading⁠
  • Shell Access⁠

⁠Introduction

Dockerfile to create a Docker⁠ container image for Akaunting⁠.

Akaunting is a self-hosted open source accounting software.

⁠Contributing

If you find this image useful here's how you can help:

• Send a pull request with your awesome features and bug fixes
• Help users resolve their issues⁠.
• Support the development of this image with a donation⁠

⁠Issues

Before reporting your issue please try updating Docker to the latest version and check if it resolves the issue. Refer to the Docker installation guide⁠ for instructions.

SELinux users should try disabling SELinux using the command setenforce 0 to see if it resolves the issue.

If the above recommendations do not help then report your issue⁠ along with the following information:

• Output of the docker version and docker info commands
• The docker run command or docker-compose.yml used to start the image. Mask out the sensitive bits.
• Please state if you are using Boot2Docker⁠, VirtualBox⁠, etc.

⁠Getting started

⁠Installation

Automated builds of the image are available on Dockerhub⁠ and is the recommended method of installation.

docker pull sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9

Alternatively you can build the image yourself.

docker build -t sameersbn/akaunting github.com/sameersbn/docker-akaunting

⁠Quickstart

The quickest way to start using this image is with docker-compose⁠.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sameersbn/docker-akaunting/master/docker-compose.yml

Update the AKAUNTING_URL environment variable in the docker-compose.yml file with the url from which Akaunting will be externally accessible.

docker-compose up

Alternatively, you can start Akaunting manually using the Docker command line.

Step 1. Launch a MySQL container

docker run --name akaunting-mysql -itd --restart=always \
  --env 'DB_NAME=akaunting_db' \
  --env 'DB_USER=akaunting' --env 'DB_PASS=password' \
  --volume /srv/docker/akaunting/mysql:/var/lib/mysql \
  sameersbn/mysql:5.7.24

Step 2. Launch the Akaunting php-fpm container

docker run --name akaunting -itd --restart=always \
  --env AKAUNTING_URL=http://akaunting.example.com:10080 \
  --link akaunting-mysql:mysql \
  --volume /srv/docker/akaunting/akaunting:/var/lib/akaunting \
  sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9 app:akaunting

Step 3. Launch a NGINX frontend container

docker run --name akaunting-nginx -itd --restart=always \
  --link akaunting:php-fpm \
  --publish 10080:80 \
  sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9 app:nginx

Point your browser to http://akaunting.example.com:10080 and login using the default username and password:

• username: [email protected]⁠
• password: password

⁠Persistence

For Akaunting to preserve its state across container shutdown and startup you should mount a volume at /var/lib/akaunting.

SELinux users should update the security context of the host mountpoint so that it plays nicely with Docker:

mkdir -p /srv/docker/akaunting
chcon -Rt svirt_sandbox_file_t /srv/docker/akaunting

⁠Maintenance

⁠Creating backups

The image allows users to create backups of the Akaunting installation using the app:backup:create command or the akaunting-backup-create helper script. The generated backup consists of configuration files, uploaded files and the sql database.

Before generating a backup — stop and remove the running instance.

docker stop akaunting && docker rm akaunting

Relaunch the container with the app:backup:create argument.

docker run --name akaunting -it --rm [OPTIONS] \
  sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9 app:backup:create

The backup will be created in the backups/ folder of the Persistent⁠ volume. You can change the location using the AKAUNTING_BACKUPS_DIR configuration parameter.

By default backups are held indefinitely. Using the AKAUNTING_BACKUPS_EXPIRY parameter you can configure how long (in seconds) you wish to keep the backups. For example, setting AKAUNTING_BACKUPS_EXPIRY=604800 will remove backups that are older than 7 days. Old backups are only removed when creating a new backup, never automatically.

⁠Restoring Backups

Backups created using instructions from the Creating backups⁠ section can be restored using the app:backup:restore argument.

Before restoring a backup — stop and remove the running instance.

docker stop akaunting && docker rm akaunting

Relaunch the container with the app:backup:restore argument. Ensure you launch the container in the interactive mode -it.

docker run --name akaunting -it --rm [OPTIONS] \
  sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9 app:backup:restore

A list of existing backups will be displayed. Select a backup you wish to restore.

To avoid this interaction you can specify the backup filename using the BACKUP argument to app:backup:restore, eg.

docker run --name akaunting -it --rm [OPTIONS] \
  sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9 app:backup:restore BACKUP=1417624827_akaunting_backup.tar

⁠Upgrading

To upgrade to newer releases:

1. Download the updated Docker image:

docker pull sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9

1. Stop the currently running image:

docker stop akaunting

1. Remove the stopped container

docker rm -v akaunting

1. Start the updated image

docker run -name akaunting -itd \
  [OPTIONS] \
  sameersbn/akaunting:1.3.9

⁠Shell Access

For debugging and maintenance purposes you may want access the containers shell. If you are using Docker version 1.3.0 or higher you can access a running containers shell by starting bash using docker exec:

docker exec -it akaunting bash