Bot development container

Container for bot server development using nodejs.

Prerequisites

You must have an ssh server facing the internet running someplace.

Ex.:

Using a Digital Ocean droplet with CoreOS you can start an ssh server container:

docker run -d \
    -p 3001:3001 \
    -p 2200:22 \
    --name ssh-tunnel \
    -e SSH_PUBKEY="ssh-rsa AAAA....jzsAN9D" \
    cloudgear/dev-ssh:1.0.0

Clonning the repo

If it does not exist yet, create a workspace folder inside your user's home and then clone the repository:

mkdir -p ~/workspace
cd ~/workspace
git clone git@github.com:felipewer/botdev.git

Generating the container image

Enter the docker folder and generate the image:

cd ~/workspace/botdev/docker
docker build -t botdev .

Run the Container

cd ~/workspace/botdev
./run.sh

Configure SSH-Tunnel

[ Outside of the container ]

Follow GitHub's instructions to generate an SSH key pair. Pay attention to the part where you can choose a file name for the key (Ex.: digiocean).

Create config file

Create the file ~/.ssh/config with the content below. Change the hostname field accordingly.

Host digitalocean
    HostName <droplet_address>
    User core
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/digiocean

Host ssh-tunnel
    HostName <droplet_address>
    User root
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/digiocean

Open ssh-tunnel

ssh -N -R 3001:localhost:3000 ssh-tunnel -p 2200

As long as the tunnel is open, your node server running on port 3000 inside the botdev container will be acessible from anywhere on <droplet_address>:3001

felipewer / botdev