[ProcessOne][] provides and maintain official containers on the docker [hub][], which targets developers for now and will becomes production ready in a near future.
These [new containers] allow to build and run ejabberd in a simple and lightweight environment.
TLS is enabled by default and the run script will auto-generate two snake-oil certificates during boot if you don't provide your SSL certificates.
To use your own certificates, there are two options.
1. Mount the volume `/opt/ejabberd/ssl` to a local directory with the `.pem` files:
* /tmp/ssl/host.pem (SERVER_HOSTNAME)
* /tmp/ssl/xmpp_domain.pem (XMPP_DOMAIN)
Make sure that the certificate and private key are in one `.pem` file. If one file is missing it will be auto-generated. I.e. you can provide your certificate for your **XMMP_DOMAIN** and use a snake-oil certificate for the `SERVER_HOSTNAME`.
2. Specify the certificates via environment variables: **EJABBERD_SSLCERT_HOST** and **EJABBERD_SSLCERT_EXAMPLE_COM**. For the
domain certificates, make sure you match the domain names given in **XMPP_DOMAIN** and replace dots and dashes with underscore.
## Base Image
Build your own ejabberd container image and add your config templates, certificates or [extend](#cluster-example) it for your needs.
You can additionally provide extra runtime configuration in a downstream image by replacing the config template `ejabberd.yml.tpl` with one based on this image's template and include extra interpolation of environment variables. The template is parsed by Jinja2 with the runtime environment (equivalent to Python's `os.environ` available as `env`).
## Served Hostnames
By default the container will serve the XMPP domain `localhost`. In order to serve a different domain at runtime, provide the **XMPP_DOMAIN** variable with a domain name. You can add more domains separated with whitespace.
```
XMPP_DOMAIN=example.ninja xyz.io test.com
```
## Authentication
Authentication methods can be set with the **EJABBERD_AUTH_METHOD** environment variable. The default authentication mode is `internal`.
**EJABBERD_EXTAUTH_INSTANCES** must be an integer with a minimum value of 1. **EJABBERD_EXTAUTH_CACHE** can be set to "false" or an integer value representing cache time in seconds. Note that caching should not be enabled if internal auth is also enabled.
Set `EJABBERD_AUTH_METHOD=external` and `EJABBERD_EXTAUTH_PROGRAM=/opt/ejabberd/scripts/lib/auth_mysql.py` to enable MySQL authentication. Use the following environment variables to configure the database connection and the layout of the database. Password changing, registration, and unregistration are optional features and are enabled only if the respective queries are provided.
- **AUTH_MYSQL_HOST**: The MySQL host
- **AUTH_MYSQL_USER**: Username to connect to the MySQL host
- **AUTH_MYSQL_PASSWORD**: Password to connect to the MySQL host
- **AUTH_MYSQL_DATABASE**: Database name where to find the user information
- **AUTH_MYSQL_HASHALG**: Format of the password in the database. Default is cleartext. Options are `crypt`, `md5`, `sha1`, `sha224`, `sha256`, `sha384`, `sha512`. `crypt` is recommended, as it is salted. When setting the password, `crypt` uses SHA-512 (prefix `$6$`).
- **AUTH_MYSQL_QUERY_GETPASS**: Get the password for a user. Use the placeholders `%(user)s`, `%(host)s`. Example: `SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = CONCAT(%(user)s, '@', %(host)s)`
- **AUTH_MYSQL_QUERY_SETPASS**: Update the password for a user. Leave empty to disable. Placeholder `%(password)s` contains the hashed password. Example: `UPDATE users SET password = %(password)s WHERE username = CONCAT(%(user)s, '@', %(host)s)`
- **AUTH_MYSQL_QUERY_REGISTER**: Register a new user. Leave empty to disable. Example: `INSERT INTO users ( username, password ) VALUES ( CONCAT(%(user)s, '@', %(host)s), %(password)s )`
- **AUTH_MYSQL_QUERY_UNREGISTER**: Removes a user. Leave empty to disable. Example: `DELETE FROM users WHERE username = CONCAT(%(user)s, '@', %(host)s)`
Note that the MySQL authentication script writes a debug log into the file `/var/log/ejabberd/extauth.log`. To get its content, execute the following command:
To find out more about the mysql authentication script, check out the [ejabberd-auth-mysql](https://github.com/rankenstein/ejabberd-auth-mysql) repository.
### LDAP Auth
Full documentation http://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/guide/configuration/#ldap.
Connection
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_SERVERS**: List of IP addresses or DNS names of your LDAP servers. This option is required.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_ENCRYPT**: The value `tls` enables encryption by using LDAP over SSL. The default value is: `none`.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_TLS_VERIFY**: `false|soft|hard` This option specifies whether to verify LDAP server certificate or not when TLS is enabled. The default is `false` which means no checks are performed.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_TLS_CACERTFILE**: Path to file containing PEM encoded CA certificates.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_TLS_DEPTH**: Specifies the maximum verification depth when TLS verification is enabled. The default value is 1.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_PORT**: The default port is `389` if encryption is disabled; and `636` if encryption is enabled.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_ROOTDN**: Bind DN. The default value is "" which means ‘anonymous connection’.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_PASSWORD**: Bind password. The default value is "".
Whether or not to dereference aliases. The default is `never`.
Authentication
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_BASE**: LDAP base directory which stores users accounts. This option is required.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_UIDS**: `ldap_uidattr:ldap_uidattr_format` The default attributes are `uid:%u`.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_FILTER**: RFC 4515 LDAP filter. The default Filter value is undefined.
- **EJABBERD_LDAP_DN_FILTER**: `{ Filter: FilterAttrs }` This filter is applied on the results returned by the main filter. By default ldap_dn_filter is undefined.
## Admins
Set one or more admin user (seperated by whitespace) with the **EJABBERD_ADMINS** environment variable. You can register admin users with the **EJABBERD_USERS** environment variable during container startup, use you favorite XMPP client or the `ejabberdctl` command line utility.
```
EJABBERD_ADMINS=admin@example.ninja
```
## Users
Automatically register users during container startup. Uses random password if you don't provide a password for the user. Format is `JID:PASSWORD`. Register more users separated with whitespace.
Register the admin user from **EJABBERD_ADMINS** with a give password:
```
EJABBERD_USERS=admin@example.ninja:password1234
```
Or without a random password printed to stdout (check container logs):
- **ERLANG_NODE**: Allows to explicitly specify erlang node for ejabberd. Set to `ejabberd` lets erlang add the hostname. Defaults to `ejabberd@localhost`.
- **ERLANG_COOKIE**: Set erlang cookie. Defaults to auto-generated cookie.
- **ERLANG_OPTIONS**: Overwrite additional options passed to erlang while starting ejabberd.
- **EJABBERD_SKIP_MODULES_UPDATE**: If you do not need to update ejabberd modules specs, skip the update task and speedup start. Defaults to `false`.
- **EJABBERD_MOD_MUC_ADMIN**: Activate the mod_muc_admin module. Defaults to `false`.
- **EJABBERD_MOD_ADMIN_EXTRA**: Activate the mod_muc_admin module. Defaults to `true`.
- **EJABBERD_REGISTER_TRUSTED_NETWORK_ONLY**: Only allow user registration from the trusted_network access rule. Defaults to `true`.
- **EJABBERD_MOD_VERSION**: Activate the mod_version module. Defaults to `true`.
- **EJABBERD_SOURCE_MODULES**: List of modules, which will be installed from sources localized in ${EJABBERD_HOME}/module_source.
- **EJABBERD_CONTRIB_MODULES**: List of modules, which will be installed from contrib repository.
- **EJABBERD_RESTART_AFTER_MODULE_INSTALL**: If any modules were installed, restart the server, if the option is enabled.
- **EJABBERD_CUSTOM_AUTH_MODULE_OVERRIDE**: If a custom module was defined for handling auth, we need to override the pre-defined auth methods in the config.
loglevel: Verbosity of log files generated by ejabberd.
0: No ejabberd log at all (not recommended)
1: Critical
2: Error
3: Warning
4: Info
5: Debug
```
## Mount Configurations
If you prefer to use your own configuration files and avoid passing docker environment variables (```-e```), you can do so by mounting a host directory.
Pass in an additional ```-v``` to the ```docker run``` command, like so:
```
docker run -d \
--name "ejabberd" \
-p 5222:5222 \
-p 5269:5269 \
-p 5280:5280 \
-h 'xmpp.example.de' \
-v /<host_path>/conf:/opt/ejabberd/conf \
rroemhild/ejabberd
```
Your ```/<host_path>/conf``` folder should look like so:
```
/<host_path>/conf/
├── ejabberdctl.cfg
├── ejabberd.yml
└── inetrc
```
Example configuration files can be downloaded from the ejabberd [github](https://github.com/rroemhild/ejabberd) page.
When these files exist in ```/opt/ejabberd/conf```, the run script will ignore the configuration templates.
# Maintenance
The `ejabberdctl` command is in the search path and can be run by:
```bash
docker exec CONTAINER ejabberdctl help
```
## Register Users
```bash
docker exec CONTAINER ejabberdctl register user XMPP_DOMAIN PASSWORD
```
## Creating Backups
Create a backupfile with ejabberdctl and copy the file from the container to localhost
