sunx/mozilla-syncserver repository overview

⁠Mozilla Firefox Sync Server Docker image

Docker image for Mozilla Sync Server⁠

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 1.8.0-20190308⁠, latest⁠ - Mozilla SyncServer 1.8.0

⁠Quickstart

To run container you can use following command:

docker run \  
  -v /home/docker/ffsync:/home/ffsync \  
  -p 127.0.0.1:5000:5000 \  
  -d sunx/mozilla-syncserver-docker

Containers, based on this image will automatically create configuration file for Mozilla Syncserver with SQLite database.

⁠Detailed description of image and containers

⁠Used ports

This image uses 1 tcp ports:

• 5000 - Standart port of Mozilla Syncsrver

⁠Volume

This image uses one volume with internal path /home/ffsync, it will store configuration file and SQLite database here

I would recommend you use host directory mapping of named volume to run containers, so you will not lose your valuable data after image update and starting new container

⁠Web server configuration

Mozilla Syncserver could work without any web-server, but I'd recommend you to use some web-server oh your host machine to add HTTPS support.

For frontend webserver configuration you can read official Mozilla Syncserver manual⁠

⁠Supported ENV variables

On first run of container you can use following ENV variables for Mozilla Syncerver configuration:

• PUBLIC_URL=<http[s]://.../> - public URL of your server, i.e. the URL as seen by Firefox. Default: http://<container_hostname>/.

⁠Firefox configuration

To configure desktop Firefox to talk to your new Sync server, go to about:config, search for identity.sync.tokenserver.uri and change its value to the URL of your server with a path of token/1.0/sync/1.5:

identity.sync.tokenserver.uri: http://sync.example.com/token/1.0/sync/1.5

More details you can find in Official Manual⁠

⁠License

This Dockerfile and scripts are released under MIT License⁠.

Mozilla Syncserver⁠ has its own license.