Consolidate Docker Containers?

[Gandalf-the-Blue]

Hi,

Given the number of separate docker containers, it is quite daunting to deploy booklogr (I myself am holding out for now) - It might be a good idea to consolidate the docker containers into a more manageable number (ideally 2 maybe 3).
Thanks!

[Mozzo1000]

Hi,
Thank you so much for showing interest in this project!
I will have to think about this. From my perspective I thought best practice for containers are to separate each process into it's own container. Nonetheless, I agree on your point that 5 containers are a bit too much. And thinking about who the end user should be for this project I can only assume less containers would only do good.
The project is setup in a way that would allow many users to use the same service, but in retrospect I am not sure that is the ideal user for this kind of project.

At the moment I don't know how I would build a single image for the services, the web, api and worker should most likely be easiest to consolidate into one container. I will have to look into this further.

[McMumf]

At least for the auth perspective, it might be worth planning long-term support for those homelab-ers that already have an authentication solution (i.e. authentik or authelia).

This would remove one docker container from the things to manage.

My naive two cents :D

[Mozzo1000]

Thank you @McMumf for your input! I am not 100% sure how authentik or similar solutions would work to remove the need for the auth container. The API backend authenticates based on JWT tokens, I will still have to somehow issue tokens based on authentication against simple email/password or oauth endpoints.

However I am not familiar with authentik or similar solutions and will have to look into them further and not dismiss them as "only" a oauth provider.
Bringing your own authentication solution could still be a valuable addition to this project!

What I think I will do for now is rewrite the auth-server into a flask extension. This would remove the need for a separate container while still providing the same use case, mainly being not having to write authentication code for every single project I write and having copy-pasted code all over the place. I believe this would be a simple change.