Migrate from manual install to docker

[rex]

I’m looking for advice and possibly a “how to”. We’re using a manual install of RocketChat on Debian Linux. I would like to consider migrating to Docker. How difficult is that likely to be? I have some experience with Docker.

[dudanogueira]

Hi!

It shouldn’t be difficult.

consider you will use same versions on both installs.

basically:

• get DB dump and uploads (if they are in filesystem instead of GridFS) from current install
• run a docker instance on your machine
• restore data to the mongo docker instance and copy the uploads to the uploads file
• run it

If you need upgrading to latest version, do it before or after this migration.

check this for some more about restoring mongo inside docker:

[HOW TO] Docker backup mongo

This question is asked frequently. How do I backup and restore a mongo DB in a docker container. We first need to find the container label. You may need sudo for the following commands. docker ps -a NAMES docker_mongo_1 So we need to do this: docker exec docker_mongo_1 sh -c 'mongodump --archive' > db.dump And in the current directory you should find db.dump Restore should be the reverse process: docker exec -i docker_mongo_1 sh -c 'mongorestore --archive' < db.dump This is quite a go…

[rex]

Thanks. I’ll look into this and hopefully be able to work on it soon.

It sounds like a straightforward process.