Odoo's installation using Docker compose

Requirements

• Git

• Docker

• Docker compose plugin

• Manage Docker as a non-root user

• A local copy of the vdx-vn/odoo-docker-compose repository

Running Odoo

1. Copy custom addons to the folder custom-addons/

2. Create a configuration file named odoo.conf in the folder etc/
   you can reference to the sample config file

3. Create a file named password.txt in the postgresql/ folder to securely store the DB password

4. Run Odoo

   cd $ODOO_DOCKER_PATH
   docker compose up -d 

5. Access your Odoo instance at http://localhost

6. (Optionally) Add extra Python libraries to the requirements.txt file

7. (Optionally) Edit Dockerfile to add extra system libraries

8. (Optionally) Setup log rotatation (on host machine)

   cd $ODOO_DOCKER_PATH/scripts
   sudo /bin/bash setup-logrotate.sh

9. (Optionally) To run Odoo with extra commands, add the command param to the etc/odoo.conf file

• For instance:

  • Update config file

    ...
    command = -d odoo_db -i stock -u sale_management
    

  • Restart services

    docker compose restart

Tip and Tricks

• generate records for testing

  docker exec <odoo_container_name_or_id> odoo populate --models res.partner,product.product --size medium -c /etc/odoo/odoo.conf

• run postgresql by docker

docker run --name postgresql-15 -p 5432:5432 \
 -e POSTGRES_USER=admin \
 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=admin \
 -e POSTGRES_DB=postgresdb \
 -d --restart unless-stopped \
 postgres:15

Problems and Solutions

• Run multiple docker compose with the same config in the same folder name, the new one will override the others,

  ** Solution:

  Specify a project name for each docker compose file to diffentiate them

• If you run docker compose in Windows and got problem

  entrypoint.sh file not found

  ** Solution:

  • open file this project in VSCode or Pycharm

  • make sure encoding option and line separator is correct