Support more architectures and installation methods

[moisout]

description

This issue tracks the progress on supporting more architectures and installation methods

Prerequisites

• Solid automation/workflow/ci-cd system (Github actions)

Architectures

• x64
• arm64
• arm

Installation methods

• Docker
• Prebuilt binary/zip
• AppImage
• Heroku
• AUR
• Flatpak
• Podman
• Unraid docker template
• Deb
• Manual compilation

Please comment on this issue for more suggestions.

[sdanfa]

Hi, any eta when you will make it work with raspberry pi 4 64bit? (arm64)

[moisout]

I am currently working on a fix for the issue related to #986, #923, #931. Afterwards I'll be able to work on arm64 builds.

[moisout]

Multi-architecture image for dev now available in the flavors arm, arm64 and amd64.
Just pull mauriceo/viewtube:dev, and it will use the right one on whatever architecture you are running.

Stable will be available with the next release (whenever that will be).
@sdanfa @lukino188

[myned]

The new docker images don't seem to be working on arm64 - they yield the same error as if I used the amd64 image on a Raspberry Pi 4B: viewtube | exec /usr/bin/node: exec format error

It works when building with build: ., but not with any images.
Looking at the docker hub tags, all of the dev images have the linux/amd64 architecture, and manually specifying the mauriceo/viewtube:dev-linux-arm64 image has the same result as mauriceo/viewtube:dev

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:
  viewtube:
    build: . # works
    container_name: viewtube
    restart: unless-stopped
    #image: mauriceo/viewtube:dev # does not work
    #image: mauriceo/viewtube:dev-linux-arm64 # does not work
    depends_on:
      - viewtube-mongodb
      - viewtube-redis
    networks:
      - viewtube
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./data:/data
    environment:
      - VIEWTUBE_URL=http://localhost:8066
      - VIEWTUBE_DATABASE_HOST=viewtube-mongodb
      - VIEWTUBE_REDIS_HOST=viewtube-redis
      - VIEWTUBE_DATA_DIRECTORY=/data
    ports:
      - 8066:8066

  viewtube-mongodb:
    container_name: viewtube-mongodb
    image: mongo:4.4
    networks:
      - viewtube
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./data/db:/data/db

  viewtube-redis:
    container_name: viewtube-redis
    image: redis:6
    networks:
      - viewtube
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./data/redis:/data

networks:
  viewtube:

[gitrosers]

having the same issues that @myned mentioned. No ARM64 available on docker hub.

[moisout]

having the same issues that @myned mentioned. No ARM64 available on docker hub.

I created a separate issue for it :)

[moisout]

There is now the nightly tag, which is available for arm, arm64 and amd64. It gets built every night off of the development branch.
Once I have released this, the stable tag will also have all these architectures.

[InvisibleFunction]

Thanks so much for this new image! Unfortunately I ran into another issue trying to run this on my raspberry pi cluster. Viewtube apparently requires MongoDB 5, which requires a processor with ARMv8.2-A, but those in my raspberry pi 4Bs only support ARMv8.0-A. 😭

I did find a community build that should work on the raspberry pi 4b here, but was not able to find a drop in replacement container image.

Hopefully some folks with newer arm processors than mine get some good use out of this new image!

[moisout]

Thanks so much for this new image! Unfortunately I ran into another issue trying to run this on my raspberry pi cluster. Viewtube apparently requires MongoDB 5, which requires a processor with ARMv8.2-A, but those in my raspberry pi 4Bs only support ARMv8.0-A. 😭

I did find a community build that should work on the raspberry pi 4b here, but was not able to find a drop in replacement container image.

Hopefully some folks with newer arm processors than mine get some good use out of this new image!

Older versions of mongodb, like 4.4, should still work aswell. Maybe you can try that?

[InvisibleFunction]

It appears to work with mongo 4.4.18! Any reason why mongo 5 is listed as a requirement?

Here's a demo manifest: https://gist.github.com/InvisibleFunction/1a7e00bcd61676f8e146b4c5a1b69e7c

[moisout]

It appears to work with mongo 4.4.18! Any reason why mongo 5 is listed as a requirement?

Here's a demo manifest: https://gist.github.com/InvisibleFunction/1a7e00bcd61676f8e146b4c5a1b69e7c

That's because i have only tested it with mongodb 5. I'll update the documentation soon tho.

[InvisibleFunction]

It stopped working and I'm not sure why. Now I'm getting timeouts trying to connect. The container logs do end with

[ViewTube] Info	3/26/2023, 7:12:34 PM Server listening on http://0.0.0.0:8066 - {}
[ViewTube] Info	3/26/2023, 8:00:00 PM Starting subscriptions job 3 at 2023-03-26 20:00:00.063Z - {}
[ViewTube] Info	3/26/2023, 8:00:00 PM Done at 2023-03-26 20:00:00.066Z: 0 channels, 0 videos - {}
[ViewTube] Info	3/26/2023, 9:00:00 PM Starting subscriptions job 4 at 2023-03-26 21:00:00.025Z - {}
[ViewTube] Info	3/26/2023, 9:00:00 PM Done at 2023-03-26 21:00:00.027Z: 0 channels, 0 videos - {}

Hitting the api endpoint returns a document:

$ curl -s http://192.168.255.18:8066/api|tail -n 1
</html>

But that page doesn't render in a browser, for example trying to fetch this linked js file fails:

$ curl http://192.168.255.18:8066/api/swagger-ui-bundle.js
{"statusCode":500,"message":"EIO: i/o error, stat '/home/app/node_modules/.pnpm/swagger-ui-dist@4.15.5/node_modules/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js'"}

Popping into the pod seems to show that that file is available though:

root@viewtube-8686bd7bb7-z2z2s:/home/app# ls -l '/home/app/node_modules/.pnpm/swagger-ui-dist@4.15.5/node_modules/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1061579 Mar 26 03:23 /home/app/node_modules/.pnpm/swagger-ui-dist@4.15.5/node_modules/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js
root@viewtube-8686bd7bb7-z2z2s:/home/app# wc -l '/home/app/node_modules/.pnpm/swagger-ui-dist@4.15.5/node_modules/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js'
2 /home/app/node_modules/.pnpm/swagger-ui-dist@4.15.5/node_modules/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js