Dear Community,
we (datamate, the primary support and sales partner of Seafile in Europa) have developed a new deployment and configuration approach for Seafile Server.
We didn’t change the software seafile itself, but we replaced the initialization scripts to make it possible to deploy and configure seafile only with environment variables.
This has many advantages
- Quick and Easy Deployment: Deploy Seafile within minutes, reducing the time and effort traditionally required.
- Centralized Configuration Management: With all configurations handled in a single location, administration becomes more straightforward and less prone to error. No fiddling with various configuration files.
- Improved Documentation: Put your configuration to version control and you will get a clear and concise records of configuration changes.
- Kubernetes Ready: This approach is necessary, that we can deliver a Kubernetes/helm deployment within the next days.
YouTube Video
I created an English YouTube video to demonstrate the installation and configuration.
More information
- Documentation of this new approach
- Github repository with changes we did to the container: GitHub - datamate-rethink-it/seafile-release
- Helm Chart will be released soon here: seafile 0.1.1 · datamate/datamate (not yet finished!)
Important: This only supports Seafile Professional (with up to three users for free). Seafile Community is not supported.
We want your feedback!
- What do you think of this approach?
- Does it simplify your life as an admin?