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dock-squeezebox-smb

CIFS-mounting container for my Squeezebox server

Intro

I'm currently learning Docker and GIT, so I've trying to put something useful here as a first try.

Current setup

My home music setup consists of several Logitech Squeezeboxes, served by a Logitech Media Server (LMS) running as a Debian VM on ESXi. The music files (mostly FLAC) are served to the LMS server via a CIFS share on my main NAS.

Intended goal

My actual goal is to "dockerize" this setup, the following way:

  • a Boot2Docker engine VM on ESXi, to run the docker containers.
  • squeezebox-smb : a docker container mounting the NAS share and serving it as a volume to the main container.
  • squeezebox-lms : a docker container running LMS, exposing port 9000 (default on LMS) to the squeezebox radios and for the web portal.

First issues

Since it's my first try, I found out some glitches and subtleties :

  • boot2docker :

    • nothing special, it works quite well. For this, I tried several solutions, including Vagrant and Ansible, but the only solution I found efficient is with docker-machine, which natively supports vsphere (i.e. without paying a license and/or needing to pay for a full vSphere license).
    • Update: I realized it works quite well on a 60-day ESXi trial. But once you activate the free license, you're caught. It doesn't work any more... ;-(

  • squeezebox-smb:

    • mounting a CIFS share within a docker container needs special rights when running the container.
    • Building on Alpine instead of Debian works well, but needs a strict /etc/fstab syntax.
    • I didn't find out yet how to share the mounted CIFS directory as a volume to the other containers... help !

  • squeezebox-lms:

    • Done. Nothing special to say. It runs on Debian and uses Perl.

Todo

  1. Finding a way to share the mounted CIFS share on squeezebox-smb to my other container (squeezebox-lms at the end).
  2. Creating a Dockerfile for squeezebox-lms : DONE
  3. Learning to use docker-compose to build everything at once.