Error initializing server

• EdgeDB Version: 1-alpha5
• OS Version: Docker container (edgedb/edgedb)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. I tried setting up an EdgeDB instance in a docker container using this Dockerfile:

FROM edgedb/edgedb

EXPOSE 5656

USER daemon

RUN edgedb server upgrade
RUN edgedb server init

1. I am getting the following error:

#6 0.815 [2021-01-26T08:10:21Z ERROR edgedb::server::init] Bootstrap error, cleaning up...
#6 0.815 Error: failed to clean up /usr/sbin/.local/share/edgedb/data/default: No such file or directory (os error 2)

1. I am not sure if I am doing this correctly because I am also quite new to Docker. I switched the user to daemon because it had trouble when run as root and daemon was apparently a user that was already created. What I want to do is I want to create a Docker container which sets up and runs my database.

Am I doing something wrong?

[elprans]

The edgedb server install is meant to be used on the host to setup and run EdgeDB instances without having to use the docker CLI directly. You shouldn’t normally need to run it in an edgedb/edgedb container, because the image already has the server installed and ready to use.

If you need to run the Docker image directly, you can do it as such:

docker run --name=edgedb -p5656:5656 -it --rm -v /tmp/data:/var/lib/edgedb/data edgedb/edgedb:20210128023945dde634

(I used the nightly image above, because :latest and :1-alpha7 are unfortunately broken due to https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-docker/issues/9)

The real issue is that I think that the documentation doesn’t tell you a lot, especially about the setup

Point taken. We’ve made lots of changes to the setup flow recently with the introduction of edgedb server CLI and the docs currently focus on that. We are working on putting together Docker/Docker Compose guides as well for the upcoming Beta.

[tailhook]

As of edgedb/edgedb-cli#238 we emit an error message when running edgdb server install in container. I think there is nothing actionable left in this issue.