How to have docker persistent storage for tgcf

[WladyX]

Hello,
I haven't started using tgcf yet, so I might miss something obivous, but looking at the code/wiki/issues/etc, I wonder were are the settings stored? Are they lost when the container is replaced? Or can we mount a local folder to keep them persistent?
Thank you for sharing this awsome tool!
Vlad

Later edit:
you probably have to mount tgcf.config.json so it is persistent.

[cosinguyen]

Hi,
Check out my docker-compose to be able to manage config files

version: '3.4'
 
services:         
  tele1:
    container_name: tele1_container
    image: aahnik/tgcf:latest
    environment:
      - PASSWORD=anypasswordyouwant
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - "/usr/tgcf/:/app"

#395 (comment)

[aahnik]

@cosinguyen thanks for the answer

@WladyX you can mount any local directory to the docker container's /app directory (which is the working directory for tgcf).

In this way, you can persist the config JSON and also the log files.

For people running tgcf in some ephemeral filesystem, they can connect tgcf to a mongo db database to persist the config. The feature is already implemented when I am writing this answer, I will update the wiki with a new page about that.

[cosinguyen]

Hi,
I have more suggestions. If you only want to mount config file, change it:

volumes:
      - "/usr/tgcf/tgcf.config.json:/app/tgcf.config.json"

So it only mounts the tgcf.config.json file outside, everything else is still inside docker. Note that if you do this, the file tgcf.config.json needs to exist before docker initialization, otherwise docker will misunderstand it as a folder and create it then tgcf will load a folder instead a file

[WladyX]

Hi, I have more suggestions. If you only want to mount config file, change it:

volumes:
      - "/usr/tgcf/tgcf.config.json:/app/tgcf.config.json"

So it only mounts the tgcf.config.json file outside, everything else is still inside docker. Note that if you do this, the file tgcf.config.json needs to exist before docker initialization, otherwise docker will misunderstand it as a folder and create it then tgcf will load a folder instead a file

This is how I've done it.