What is Parse Dashboard?

Parse Dashboard is a standalone dashboard for managing your Parse apps. You can use it to manage your Parse Server apps and your apps that are running on Parse.com.

http://www.parse.com/

TL;DR;

Docker Compose

$ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-parse-dashboard/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
$ docker-compose up -d

Kubernetes

WARNING: This is a beta configuration, currently unsupported.

Get the raw URL pointing to the kubernetes.yml manifest and use kubectl to create the resources on your Kubernetes cluster like so:

$ kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-parse-dashboard/master/kubernetes.yml

Why use Bitnami Images?

Bitnami closely tracks upstream source changes and promptly publishes new versions of this image using our automated systems.
With Bitnami images the latest bug fixes and features are available as soon as possible.
Bitnami containers, virtual machines and cloud images use the same components and configuration approach - making it easy to switch between formats based on your project needs.
Bitnami images are built on CircleCI and automatically pushed to the Docker Hub.
All our images are based on minideb a minimalist Debian based container image which gives you a small base container image and the familiarity of a leading linux distribution.

Prerequisites

To run this application you need Docker Engine 1.10.0. Docker Compose is recomended with a version 1.6.0 or later.

How to use this image

Run the application using Docker Compose

This is the recommended way to run Parse Dashboard. You can use the following docker compose template:

version: '2'
services:
  mongodb:
    image: 'bitnami/mongodb:latest'
    volumes:
      - 'mongodb_data:/bitnami'
  parse:
    image: 'bitnami/parse:latest'
    volumes:
      - 'parse_data:/bitnami'
    ports:
      - '1337:1337'
    depends_on:
      - mongodb
  parse-dashboard:
    image: 'bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest'
    ports:
      - '80:4040'
    volumes:
      - 'parse_dashboard_data:/bitnami'
    depends_on:
      - mongodb
volumes:
  mongodb_data:
    driver: local
  parse_data:
    driver: local
  parse_dashboard_data:
    driver: local

Run the application manually

If you want to run the application manually instead of using docker-compose, these are the basic steps you need to run:

Create a network for the application, Parse Server and the database:

$ docker network create parse_dashboard-tier

Start a MongoDB database in the network generated:

$ docker run -d --name mongodb --net=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/mongodb

Note: You need to give the container a name in order to Parse to resolve the host.

Start a Parse Server container:

$ docker run -d -p 1337:1337 --name parse --net=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/parse

Run the Parse Dashboard container:

$ docker run -d -p 80:4040 --name parse-dashboard --net=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/parse-dashboard

Then you can access your application at http://your-ip/

Persisting your application

If you remove the container all your data and configurations will be lost, and the next time you run the image the database will be reinitialized. To avoid this loss of data, you should mount a volume that will persist even after the container is removed.

For persistence you should mount a volume at the /bitnami path. Additionally you should mount a volume for the persistence of MongoDB and Parse data.

The above examples define docker volumes namely mongodb_data, parse_data and parse_dashboard_data. The application state will persist as long as these volumes are not removed.

To avoid inadvertent removal of these volumes you can mount host directories as data volumes. Alternatively you can make use of volume plugins to host the volume data.

Mount host directories as data volumes with Docker Compose

This requires a minor change to the docker-compose.yml template previously shown:

version: '2'

services:
  mongodb:
    image: 'bitnami/mongodb:latest'
    volumes:
      - '/path/to/mongodb-persistence:/bitnami'
  parse:
    image: 'bitnami/parse:latest'
    ports:
      - '1337:1337'
    depends_on:
        - mongodb
    volumes:
      - '/path/to/parse-persistence:/bitnami'
  parse-dashboard:
    image: 'bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest'
    ports:
      - '80:4040'
    depends_on:
      - mongodb
    volumes:
      - '/path/to/parse_dashboard-persistence:/bitnami'

Mount host directories as data volumes using the Docker command line

In this case you need to specify the directories to mount on the run command. The process is the same than the one previously shown:

Create a network (if it does not exist):

$ docker network create parse_dashboard-tier

Create a MongoDB container with host volume:

$ docker run -d --name mongodb \
  --net parse-dashboard-tier \
  --volume /path/to/mongodb-persistence:/bitnami \
  bitnami/mongodb:latest

Note: You need to give the container a name in order to Parse to resolve the host.

Start a Parse Server container:

$ docker run -d -name parse -p 1337:1337 \
  --net parse-dashboard-tier
  --volume /path/to/parse-persistence:/bitnami \
  bitnami/parse:latest

Run the Parse Dashboard container:

$ docker run -d --name parse-dashboard -p 80:4040 \
--volume /path/to/parse_dashboard-persistence:/bitnami \
bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest

Upgrade this application

Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of Parse Dashboard, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container. We will cover here the upgrade of the Parse Dashboard container.

Get the updated images:

$ docker pull bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest

Stop your container

For docker-compose: $ docker-compose stop parse-dashboard
For manual execution: $ docker stop parse-dashboard

Take a snapshot of the application state

$ rsync -a /path/to/parse-persistence /path/to/parse-persistence.bkp.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H.%M.%S)

Additionally, snapshot the MongoDB and Parse server data.

You can use these snapshots to restore the application state should the upgrade fail.

Remove the currently running container

For docker-compose: $ docker-compose rm parse-dashboard
For manual execution: $ docker rm parse-dashboard

Run the new image

For docker-compose: $ docker-compose start parse-dashboard
For manual execution (mount the directories if needed): docker run --name parse-dashboard bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest

Configuration

Environment variables

When you start the parse-dashboard image, you can adjust the configuration of the instance by passing one or more environment variables either on the docker-compose file or on the docker run command line. If you want to add a new environment variable:

For docker-compose add the variable name and value under the application section:

parse-dashboard:
  image: bitnami/parse-dashboard:latest
  ports:
    - 80:4040
  environment:
    - PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=my_password
  volumes:
    - 'parse_dashboard_data:/bitnami'
  depends_on:
    - parse

For manual execution add a -e option with each variable and value:

 $ docker run -d -e PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=my_password -p 80:4040 --name parse-dashboard -v /your/local/path/bitnami/parse_dashboard:/bitnami --network=parse_dashboard-tier bitnami/parse-dashboard

Available variables:

PARSE_DASHBOARD_USER: Parse Dashboard application username. Default: user
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD: Parse Dashboard application password. Default: bitnami
PARSE_HOST: This host is for Parse Dashboard knows how to form the urls to Parse Server.
PARSE_PORT_NUMBER: Parse Server Port. Default: 1337
PARSE_APP_ID: Parse Server App Id. Default: myappID
PARSE_MASTER_KEY: Parse Server Master Key. Default: mymasterKey
PARSE_DASHBOARD_APP_NAME: Parse Dashboard application name. Default: MyDashboard

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue, or submit a pull request with your contribution.

Issues

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to include the following information in your issue:

Host OS and version
Docker version (docker version)
Output of docker info
Version of this container (echo $BITNAMI_APP_VERSION inside the container)
The command you used to run the container, and any relevant output you saw (masking any sensitive information)

Community

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Discussions are archived at bitnami-oss.slackarchive.io.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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