OCI

An Open Containers Initiative (OCI) image that provides nctalkproxyd is available at Quay.io.

The images can be combined with the bot image of nctalk-bot-jitsi. Its up to you, to choose an adequate pod mode.

umbrella pod: a single pod, where both images are legal citizens
multi pod: each image is executed its own pod instance (eg. to address scalability, cluster-awareness, etc)

Please talk into account, that internetworking between pods is ony supported for images running in root mode (as of podman <= v1.8.2)

Installation

Pull the image:

$ podman pull quay.io/rzerres/nctalkproxyd:latest

Check the network setup

$ podman network ls
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if you need a new definition, go ahead and create one with your prefered driver (default: "bridge")

```bash
$ podman network create  --driver bridge nctalkproxyd

Systemd handling (multi pod)

On a systemd capable distro, you OCI images can be managed combining a systemd.service with the podman binary. If you are not familiar with podman yet, you might simply put: alias docker=podman. Beside using it as a drop-in replacement for docker, there are a couple of advantages:

OCI compliant
rootless and root mode
daemonless
direct interaction with Container Registy, Containers, Image Storage and runc

To create the systemd.service, run

$ podman create --detach --name nctalkproxyd nctalkproxy:latest -u <username> -p <password> -r "https://your.nextcloud.url"
$ podman generate systemd --name nctalkproxyd > /etc/systemd/system/nctalkproxyd.service

Have a look at running containers with podman to get more insightdetails.

Adaptation

#The required parameters for nctalkproxyd can be adapted either via a config file, via config parameters or via corresponding environment variables. The latter take precedence.

$ systemctl edit --full nctalkproxyd.service

The config file is preset with the following defaults:

$ cat /etc/nctalkproxyd.yaml

nctalkproxyd:
  addrLocale: :1969
  addrRemote: https://mynextcloud.com
  username: botusername
  password: botpassword
  dbpath: /var/lib/nctalkproxyd

Adapt the environment variables with appropriate values.

NCTALKPROXYD_DBPATH=/var/lib/nctalkproxyd
NCTALKPROXYD_USERNAME=botusername
NCTALKPROXYD_PASSWORD=botpassword
NCTALKPROXYD_ADDRLOCAL=:1969
NCTALKPROXYD_ADDRREMOTE=https://mynextcloud.com

Finally start the service.

$ systemctl enable nctalkproxy.service
$ systemctl start nctalkproxy.service