sheepitrenderfarm/shepherd repository overview

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To install the shepherd:

1. Set an mariadb server, for example:

host: mariadb
user: shepherd_user
password: shepherd_password
database: shepherd_database

1. Set up 3 directories, "config", "log" and "storage". Storage can grow to few TB.
2. Create a config file /srv/shepherd-node/config/.env.local :

DATABASE_URL=mysql://shepherd_user:shepherd_password@mariadb:3306/shepherd_database?serverVersion=mariadb-10.0.38

1. docker pull sheepitrenderfarm/shepherd:latest
2. launch the image with : docker run -d --rm -v /srv/shepherd-node/config:/etc/shepherd -v /srv/shepherd-node/log:/var/www/html/var/log -v /srv/shepherd-node/storage:/var/lib/shepherd --name shepherd sheepitrenderfarm/shepherd:latest
3. go inside the image (with docker exec -it shepherd /bin/bash) and call php ./bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force --dump-sql
4. set up a https proxy from outsite to the shepherd.