Derrick Mehaffy: Great to hear that you finally cared about docker users with Strapi v4! Will you update the Docker image to v4, too? I'm still using the v3 one in a testing environment from Dockerhub.

For me the new documentation didn't work for my purpose (AKS with Helm and persistent volume). I had problems with permissions, I couldn't copy the package*.json.

I solved it by creating a new group:user (removed the node one) strapi:strapi which owns the working directory.

CorvusGei: At this time and for the foreseeable future we do not plan to build our own docker container as it doesn't really fit how Strapi is expected to be used in production environments. You can find an FAQ about this here: https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/setup-deployment-guides/installation/docker.html#why-doesn-t-strapi-provide-official-docker-images

Derrick Mehaffy: Thank you for your explanation.

BTW: we will use Strapi for us and a costumer on K8s-Clusters, but allow backend-access from internal networks only. And after developing our app we will switch to the production environment.

Derrick Mehaffy: Hope you are doing well. I thought the purpose of this post, was to create a docker image for V4. Can you help me understand what was achieved?

Bruno Sastre: We did evaluate creating a docker image but doing so really doesn't follow docker best practices. Strapi's "source of truth" for the content-type schema's is on the file-system, thus it really doesn't make sense for us to build a docker container that would have a mapped volume since the actual code is simply being pulled from your local file-system (meaning we aren't really shipping anything in our image other than a few dependencies). And you would almost certainly never use our image for production. We want to ensure we are teaching the community users the proper approaches on using docker both for development and production.

What was done was us properly documenting how users should be using docker (and compose) for development/staging and production environments. Likewise we wanted to highlight the tools our community has built to ease the use with docker. Supporting docker does not always mean that we need to actually create an image and in general unless you are a company shipping compiled binaries or applications who's "source of truth" is somewhere stateless such as the database then it makes sense. Strapi however is not file-system stateless in this sense and thus it does not make sense for us to build a single container that works for everyone, Strapi is far too customizable for that.

Derrick Mehaffy: Thanks so much for the detailed answer.

Bruno Sastre: quite welcome!

Derrick Mehaffy: We strongly believe this :

"FROM node:16-alpine

RUN apk update && apk add build-base gcc autoconf automake zlib-dev libpng-dev nasm bash vips-dev"

could have became a good "strapi-base" docker image.

But hey, let's just update the documentation for this +420 upvoted feature.

Alessandro Moscatelli: That container would contain nothing specific to Strapi however. If anything someone in the community could simply create a base container for something like "common build tools" or lib-vips which would make more sense. Our goal was to educate the proper real world usage of docker and not simply take the easy way out. We tend to follow the DRY method (do not repeat yourself) and we did not want to give people the wrong impression (and need to answer thousands of questions) about why our base-container has no Strapi code in it (which wouldn't make much sense).

Derrick Mehaffy: So the completed support for Docker is "We're not going to support it". Got it.

Graham: As mentioned several times before, we do support it. Supporting docker does not mean we need to build and release our own images especially when there is nothing to gain by doing so. If you have an alternative to suggest please do feel free to open a new feature request for it. Likewise as a community member if you wanted to build and offer your own docker images in place of us, indeed you can do that as well.

Aurélien Georget: Wonderful news!

Aurélien Georget: Hello. Hope you are doing well. Do you have a rough ETA for this support?

Bruno Sastre: I'm good, how are you? Let me ping the team in charge of it, I know they would like to work on it by the end of the September, however, it's also a synchronized initiative with the Community Org, so I'm not so sure about the ETA yet.

Bruno Sastre: It's a matter of weeks :) At maximum, by the end of October

Aurélien Georget: I am doing fine. Thanks for asking.

I appreciate your answer, thank you.

Marco Autiero ✅: That is wonderfull news. Thanks for your answer.