xmpp.chapril.org-ejabberd/docker

ejabberd container

• Introduction
• Quick Start
• Usage
  • Persistence
  • SSL Certificates
  • Base Image
• Ejabberd Configuration
  • Served Hostnames
  • Authentication
  • Admins
  • Users
  • SSL
  • Modules
  • Logging
  • Mount Configurations
  • Erlang Configuration
• Maintenance
  • Register Users
  • Creating Backups
  • Restoring Backups
• Debug
  • Erlang Shell
  • System Shell
  • System Commands
• Exposed Ports

Introduction

Dockerfile to build an ejabberd container image.

Docker Tag Names are based on ejabberd versions in git tags. The image tag :latest is based on the master branch.

Quick Start

You can start of with the following container:

docker run -d \
    --name "ejabberd" \
    -p 5222:5222 \
    -p 5269:5269 \
    -p 5280:5280 \
    -h 'xmpp.example.de' \
    -e "XMPP_DOMAIN=example.de" \
    -e "ERLANG_NODE=nodename" \
    -e "EJABBERD_ADMINS=admin@example.de admin2@example.de" \
    -e "EJABBERD_USERS=admin@example.de:password1234 admin2@example.de" \
    -e "TZ=Europe/Berlin" \
    rroemhild/ejabberd

Usage

Persistence

For storage of the application data, you can mount volumes at

• /opt/ejabberd/ssl
• /opt/ejabberd/backup
• /opt/ejabberd/upload
• /opt/ejabberd/database

or use a data container

docker create --name ejabberd-data rroemhild/ejabberd-data
docker run -d --name ejabberd --volumes-from ejabberd-data rroemhild/ejabberd

SSL Certificates

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 it for your needs.

FROM rroemhild/ejabberd
ADD ./ejabberd.yml.tpl /opt/ejabberd/conf/ejabberd.yml.tpl
ADD ./ejabberdctl.cfg.tpl /opt/ejabberd/conf/ejabberdctl.cfg.tpl
ADD ./example.com.pem /opt/ejabberd/ssl/example.com.pem

If you need root privileges switch to USER root and go back to USER ejabberd when you're done.

Ejabberd Configuration

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.

Supported authentication methods:

• anonymous
• internal
• external
• ldap

Internal and anonymous authentication example:

EJABBERD_AUTH_METHOD=internal anonymous

External authentication example:

EJABBERD_AUTH_METHOD=external
EJABBERD_EXTAUTH_PROGRAM="/opt/ejabberd/scripts/authenticate-user.sh"
EJABBERD_EXTAUTH_INSTANCES=3
EJABBERD_EXTAUTH_CACHE=600

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.

MySQL Authentication

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:

docker exec -ti ejabberd tail -n50 -f /var/log/ejabberd/extauth.log

To find out more about the mysql authentication script, check out the 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 "".
• EJABBERD_LDAP_DEREF_ALIASES: never|always|finding|searching 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):

EJABBERD_USERS=admin@example.ninja

Register more than one user:

EJABBERD_USERS=admin@example.ninja:password1234 user1@test.com user1@xyz.io

SSL

• EJABBERD_SSLCERT_HOST: SSL Certificate for the hostname.
• EJABBERD_SSLCERT_EXAMPLE_COM: SSL Certificates for XMPP domains.
• EJABBERD_STARTTLS: Set to false to disable StartTLS for client to server connections. Default: true.
• EJABBERD_S2S_SSL: Set to false to disable SSL in server 2 server connections. Default: true.
• EJABBERD_HTTPS: If your proxy terminates SSL you may want to disable HTTPS on port 5280 and 5443. Default: true.
• EJABBERD_PROTOCOL_OPTIONS_TLSV1: Allow TLSv1 protocol. Default: false.
• EJABBERD_PROTOCOL_OPTIONS_TLSV1_1: Allow TLSv1.1 protocol. Default: true.
• EJABBERD_CIPHERS: Cipher suite. Default: HIGH:!aNULL:!3DES.
• EJABBERD_DHPARAM: Set to true to use or generate custom DH parameters. Default: false.

Modules

• EJABBERD_SKIP_MODULES_UPDATE: If you do not need to update ejabberd modules specs, skip the update task and speedup start. Default: false.
• EJABBERD_MOD_MUC_ADMIN: Activate the mod_muc_admin module. Default: false.
• EJABBERD_MOD_ADMIN_EXTRA: Activate the mod_muc_admin module. Default: true.
• EJABBERD_REGISTER_TRUSTED_NETWORK_ONLY: Only allow user registration from the trusted_network access rule. Default: true.
• EJABBERD_MOD_VERSION: Activate the mod_version module. Default: true.

Logging

Use the EJABBERD_LOGLEVEL environment variable to set verbosity. Default: 4 (Info).

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 page.

When these files exist in /opt/ejabberd/conf, the run script will ignore the configuration templates.

Erlang Configuration

With the following environment variables you can configure options that are passed by ejabberdctl to the erlang runtime system when starting ejabberd.

• POLL: Set to false to disable Kernel polling. Default: true.
• SMP: SMP support enable, auto, disable. Default: auto.
• ERL_MAX_PORTS: Maximum number of simultaneously open Erlang ports. Default: 32000.
• FIREWALL_WINDOW: Range of allowed ports to pass through a firewall. Default: not defined.
• INET_DIST_INTERFACE: IP address where this Erlang node listens other nodes. Default: 0.0.0.0.
• ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS: IP addresses where epmd listens for connections. Default: 0.0.0.0.
• ERL_PROCESSES: Maximum number of Erlang processes. Default: 250000.
• ERL_MAX_ETS_TABLES: Maximum number of Erlang processes. Default: 1400.
• ERLANG_OPTIONS: Overwrite additional options passed to erlang while starting ejabberd. Default: -noshell
• ERLANG_NODE: Allows to explicitly specify erlang node for ejabberd. Set to nodename lets erlang add the hostname. Default: ejabberd@localhost.
• EJABBERD_CONFIG_PATH: ejabberd configuration file. Default: /opt/ejabberd/conf/ejabberd.yml.
• CONTRIB_MODULES_PATH: contributed ejabberd modules path. Default: /opt/ejabberd/modules.
• CONTRIB_MODULES_CONF_DIR: configuration directory for contributed modules. Default: /opt/ejabberd/modules/conf.
• ERLANG_COOKIE: Set erlang cookie. Default is to auto-generated cookie.

Maintenance

The ejabberdctl command is in the search path and can be run by:

docker exec CONTAINER ejabberdctl help

Register Users

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

docker exec CONTAINER ejabberdctl backup /opt/ejabberd/backup/ejabberd.backup
docker cp CONTAINER:/opt/ejabberd/backup/ejabberd.backup /tmp/ejabberd.backup

Restoring Backups

Copy the backupfile from localhost to the running container and restore with ejabberdctl

docker cp /tmp/ejabberd.backup CONTAINER:/opt/ejabberd/backup/ejabberd.backup
docker exec CONTAINER ejabberdctl restore /opt/ejabberd/backup/ejabberd.backup

Debug

Erlang Shell

Set -i and -t option and append live to get an interactive erlang shell:

docker run -i -t -P rroemhild/ejabberd live

You can terminate the erlang shell with q()..

System Shell

docker run -i -t rroemhild/ejabberd shell

System Commands

docker run -i -t rroemhild/ejabberd env

Exposed Ports

• 4560 (XMLRPC)
• 5222 (Client 2 Server)
• 5269 (Server 2 Server)
• 5280 (HTTP admin/websocket/http-bind)
• 5443 (HTTP Upload)