commento-balena

Deployment configuration to run a self-hosted version of commento on a device running balena.

This project has been tested on a raspberry pi zero but should work with other devices.

Deploy to a device running balena

Follow this guide to configure a device with balena: https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/getting-started/raspberry-pi/go/

Run these commands to deploy self-hosted commento on your device:

$ git clone git@github.com:igolaizola/commento-balena.git
$ git remote add balena <balena-username>@git.balena-cloud.com:<balena-username>/<balena-app-name>.git
$ git push balena master

Configuration

Public device url

Enable the public device url of your device and add it as a device environment variable on balena dashboard. This will be the url to access your commento self-hosted app.

COMMENTO_ORIGIN=https://aaaabbbbccccdddd0000000000000000.balena-devices.com

Emails

Add these values as application environment variables on balena dashboard to enable sending emails from commento.

COMMENTO_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
COMMENTO_SMTP_PORT=587
COMMENTO_SMTP_USERNAME=my-sender-email@gmail.com
COMMENTO_SMTP_PASSWORD=my-password
COMMENTO_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS=my-sender-email@gmail.com

Disable new owners

As soon as you have registered your admin/s, immediately uncomment/set this to "true".

COMMENTO_FORBID_NEW_OWNERS=true

Instruction set architecture

Postgres folder has multiple Dockerfiles for different values of %%BALENA_ARCH%%.

See:

• https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/develop/dockerfile/#dockerfile-templates
• https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/develop/dockerfile/#multiple-dockerfiles