Move local rocketchat to production

If you have a dev environment on VSC and you want to move to production by creating docker images

please read ahead

create docker out of your meteor installation.
meteor build --server-only --directory /tmp/rc-build cp .docker/Dockerfile /tmp/rc-build cd /tmp/rc-build docker build -t someimage .

check your local meteor mongo port and take a dump.


mongodump -h 127.0.0.1 --port 3001 -d meteor  --forceTableScan  

// dbname is meteor for dev by default use the local mongodumb cli in ubuntu if not install mongo-tools.

//you will have to move this folder as a gzip file to the mongo container and do a restore.

tar -zcvf meteor.tar.gz meteor/   

docker cp meteor.tar.gz mongo:/ ----------- mongo is container name and will place gz file in the root.

mongorestore -d rocketchat dump/meteor // db name if rocketchat by default for offical images

//make sure to check db names while importing use a tool like robot3 to have mongo gui

to run the new images run below.

$ docker run --name mongo -d mongo:4.0 --smallfiles --replSet rs0 --oplogSize 128

$ docker exec -ti mongo mongo --eval "printjson(rs.initiate())"

// default rocket.chat images look for mongo container to connect to on 27017 and with name mongo.

 docker run --name rocketchat -p 80:3000 --link mongo --env ROOT_URL=http://localhost --env MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/local -d someimage

//docker file for rocket.chat

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/blob/develop/.docker/Dockerfile