Building in Docker-in-Docker environment - missing node_modules etc. about strapi-docker HOT 2 CLOSED

@ChristianHeimke Thanks for a response - and I understand and agree, this is issue only if used with strapi/strapi image. We did a switch to strapi/base already.

For future reference I'd like add my two cents:

Most of the documentation seems to be written in a way of running Strapi on standalone machine with one persistent volume (example). It is assumed, that one will SSH into the instance, make necessary changes, rebuild application and then run it.

Running Strapi in Docker, using recommended Dockerfiles, will result a fresh build on runtime, which is taking many minutes even on powerful instances and it's not designed to run in parallel with single volume on cluster. Upgrading application and it's plugins or configuration requires change on the volume and restarting containers, initiating rebuild. This approach might be fine for some cases.

Approach we took, as outlined above, is to have app folder in GIT and then running yarn build in Dockerfile. That will create Docker image with versioned configurations, no extra volume mount (we use an external bucket for media files) and that enables us to run Strapi in multiple replicas with very short boot time - making it more usable for cloud workloads.

It would be awesome to see those features being implemented in Strapi directly, plus staging of content between environments.

That's all from my side, have a great day!

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@davesade I totally agree with your thoughts. But as far as I understand the starpi-docker universe, the starpi/strapi image is only for development and testing purpose.

If you want to run strapi in a production env inside docker you should use the strapi/base image, as described in the readme:

When deploying a strapi application to production you can use docker to package your whole app in an image
(https://github.com/strapi/strapi-docker#how-to-use-strapibase)

I hope this will help for your production setup ;-)

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