What is this repo?

This started as a personal deploy reproduction for testing out Directus back in the day. But as time went by I optimized as much as possible providing a somewhat opinionated fresh deployment for Directus.

Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to automate it with code-first (follow the current status here) deployments creating a set of boilerplates for various use cases.

Feel free to open up issues or PRs

Directus deploy

Fill your env variables, and compose up the version you need.

If you pull this git but also wish to create your own deployment you could simply use the following file naming convention: docker-compose.SOMETHING.yml.

Notes

• traefik deployment currently not maintained for lack of testing environment, but open to PRs.

Generating the UNIQUE_KEY and UNIQUE_SECRET

A good and practical way to generate them would be to use:
openssl rand -hex 16 (output example: ed84e94edee1a90bb82c1503fca9ce3e)
openssl rand -base64 24 (output example: NR0OLD1KXuZQu2aZyiGTzdmIEVy0IoLp)

Directus config reference:

https://docs.directus.io/self-hosted/config-options#general

Commands

To execute any command from outside the container prepend them with the following code, making sure to specify the correct container name:

docker exec -t YOUR-CONTAINER-NAME 

backup database

mkdir -p /db_dumps && pg_dump "${DB_NAME}" -c -U "${DB_USER}" | gzip > /db_dumps/$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")_"${DB_NAME}".sql.gz

restore database

1. Stop Directus and cache containers/services.

2. Execute the following command:

psql template1 -c "drop database \"${DB_NAME}\" with (force);" -U "${DB_USER}" && psql template1 -c "create database \"${DB_NAME}\" with owner "${DB_USER}";" -U "${DB_USER}" && gunzip -c $(ls -1t /db_dumps/*.sql.gz | head -n1) | psql "${DB_NAME}" -U "${DB_USER}"

After successful restore start Directus and cache containers/services.

delete Directus transformations

attach to Directus's running container and run the following comand:

find /directus/uploads -type f -mtime +0 -regex "^\([0-9a-z]\{8\}\)-\([0-9a-z]\{4\}-\)\{3\}\(\([0-9a-z]\{12\}\)\)\(__[0-9a-z]\{40\}\)\.\(jpeg\|jpg\|webp\|avif\|svg\|png\)$" -delete

In production you could also execute this command from filebrowsers terminal.

Ideally this should be added to a cron-job, but make sure to change -mtime from +0 to +29, to match Directus's maxAge