The Foundation
This project assumes that you have a machine(Raspberry PI, Le Potato, old PC, Proxmox LXC, etc.) with Docker already installed. If you’re using Promxox check out the scripts for a LXC setup here.
For those doing this bare metal, standard Debian/Ubuntu VM or LXC, and don’t already have Docker setup, run the following command and you’ll be ready to move forward.
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sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose
The prep
Next, let’s make a directory in the event we want to offload volumes or save a config or docker-compose.yml file in the future. Before we do that though we’ll want to create a user and give them docker access to insulate things from the system a little.
To create and set up the user here are the commands, for the user feel free to answer the questions however you see fit.
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adduser bob
usermod -aG docker bob
Ok, not that we’ve added the user and given them access to the docker group we can switch to that user’
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su bob
Now we’ll go to the home folder for our user and create the directory
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cd ~
mkdir element-web
cd element-web
Starting things up
Lastly, we’ll want to start the element-web service, for now, we’ll use a one-liner to get things going, in a future article I’ll work to create a docker-compose.yml file for this, or possibly link to a gist here in the future, here we go.
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docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --name element -p 4080:80 vectorim/element-web
You can change the port on the left side from 4080 to whatever you’d like it to be. And that’s it. If you want to update it I’ll add the commands for that below. Till next time, fair winds and following seas.
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docker stop element
docker rm element
docker pull vectorim/element-web
docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --name element -p 4080:80 vectorim/element-web