Laverna docker container

Laverna is a note taking web application written in JavaScript. It's built to be an open source alternative to Evernote. This is a Docker compose configuration to setup your own laverna server.

Setup

This setup includes:

laverna:proxy

• supervisord
• nginx (reverse proxy)

laverna:web

• supervisord
• nginx (web server)
• laverna

Generate the certificates with letsencrypt

NOTE: these commands needs to be run on the docker host

• Install dependencies

# apt-get install nginx git bc
# git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt /opt/letsencrypt

• add the following lines to /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

location ~ /.well-known {
        allow all;
}

• restart nginx

# systemctl restart nginx

• request the certificate

# cd /opt/letsencrypt
# ./letsencrypt-auto certonly -a webroot --webroot-path=/usr/share/nginx/html -d notes.example.com

• edit the docker-compose.yml config

sed -i -e 's/notes.examples.com/your.site.com/' docker-compose.yml

• generate strong DH group

# openssl dhparam -out /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem 2048

Use the containers

Customize the nginx configuration:

$ cd laverna
$ vim proxy/sites-enabled/proxy

Install docker-compose and start the containers:

$ docker-compose up -d