Preliminary Firefox Sync Dockerfile

README.md

Preliminary work on a Docker version of "How To Run Firefox Sync 1.5"

Prerequisites

1. Docker
2. Firefox 29 (Beta), or newer

Building and running the server

With the Dockerfile below in the current directory, run:

1. docker build -t sync:server .
2. docker run -i -t -p 5000:5000 sync:server
3. Visit http://localhost:5000, it should say "it works!"

Using the server

1. Go to about:config, change services.sync.tokenServerURI to http://localhost:5000/token/1.0/sync/1.5
2. Open the Browser Console (Ctrl-Shift-J)
3. Try to use Firefox Sync -- you should see log output from Docker, and the Browser Console should show connections to http://localhost:5000

Dockerfile

FROM debian:7.4
MAINTAINER Dan Callahan <dan.callahan@gmail.com>

RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
    vim curl locales \
    && apt-get clean

RUN locale-gen C.UTF-8 && LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/sbin/update-locale

ENV LANG C.UTF-8

# Set up the Sync Server

RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
    ca-certificates \
    adduser \
    build-essential \
    python-dev \
    python-virtualenv \
    git-core

RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" app

USER app

WORKDIR /home/app
RUN git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

WORKDIR /home/app/syncserver
RUN make build

EXPOSE 5000

ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/make", "serve"]