ICEcoder Docker Container Revisited

ICEcoder is a browser based code editor, which provides a modern approach to building websites. By allowing you to code directly within the web browser, online or offline, it means you only need one program (your browser) to develop sites, plus can test on actual web servers. After development, you can also maintain the website easily, all of which make for speedy and smart development.

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Creates a Container which runs icecoder’s ICEcoder, with lsiobase/alpine as the base image, as seen on icecoder.net. A demo can be viewed here

The lasiobase/alpine image is a custom base image built with Alpine linux and S6 overlay.
Using this image allows us to use the same user/group ids in the container as on the host, making file transfers much easier

Deployment

Pre-built images

version: '3.6'
services:
  icecoder:
    container_name: icecoder
    image: griefed/icecoder
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./icecoder/code:/code
      - ./icecoder/config:/config
      - ./icecoder/data:/data
      - ./icecoder/plugins:/plugins
    environment:
      - GITURL=https://github.com/icecoder/ICEcoder.git
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
    ports:
      - 8080:8080

Raspberry Pi

To run this container on a Raspberry Pi, use the arm-tag. I’ve tested it on a Raspberry Pi 3B.

griefed/icecoder:arm

Configuration

Configuration	Explanation
Restart policy	“no”, always, on-failure, unless-stopped
code volume	Contains GITURL repository.
config volume	Contains config files and logs.
data volume	Contains ICEcoder data like backups.
plugins volume	Contains all plugin files.
GITURL	Specify a GitHub repository to checkout on first run of the container.
TZ	Timezone
PUID	for UserID
PGID	for GroupID
ports	The port where the service will be available at.

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes, permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container. Linuxserver.io avoids this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Building the image yourself

Use the Dockerfile to build the image yourself, in case you want to make any changes to it

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.6'
services:
  icecoder:
    container_name: icecoder
    build: ./icecoder/
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./icecoder/code:/code
      - ./icecoder/config:/config
      - ./icecoder/data:/data
      - ./icecoder/plugins:/plugins
    environment:
      - GITURL=https://github.com/icecoder/ICEcoder.git
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
    ports:
      - 8080:8080

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Griefed/docker-ICEcoder.git ./icecoder
2. Prepare docker-compose.yml file as seen above
3. docker-compose up -d --build icecoder
4. Visit IP.ADDRESS.OF.HOST:8080
5. ???
6. Profit!