Every attachment — a document scan, a fuel receipt, a workshop invoice, a
photo of a part's box — has lived inside pb_data, in a directory beside the
SQLite file. One volume held both, so neither could be sized, backed up or
moved without the other. PocketBase can keep those bytes in an S3 bucket
instead, and now it is told to.
Nothing on the way to a client changes, because an attachment was never a
storage URL to begin with: it is fetched from GET /api/{records}/{id}/file,
which re-checks car access and asks PocketBase for the bytes as the service
account. PocketBase streams from the bucket through that same endpoint rather
than redirecting to it, so the web app, the phone and the plugin cannot tell
which side of the switch they are on.
The bootstrap that already creates the collections now writes PocketBase's
files-storage settings too, from PB_S3_*, on every boot and only when they
differ from what is already there — then asks PocketBase to prove it can reach
the bucket, and says so in the log either way. Two asymmetries are deliberate.
A read of the settings masks the stored secret, so a rotation of the secret
alone is invisible from here and needs another PB_S3_* to move with it. And it
never turns S3 back off: files already written to a bucket are reachable only
while PocketBase still points at it, so dropping the configuration would strand
them rather than undo anything.
Each deployment shape is one compose file with an .env example of the same
name, not a base plus an overlay to remember — six of each per folder, for
Docker and Docker-AIO alike: the plain one, .seaweedfs, .s3, and the three prod
twins. The SeaweedFS files run master, volume, filer and gateway as one process
and a one-shot init container beside it, because PocketBase never issues a
CreateBucket and SeaweedFS will not conjure one on first upload. The credentials
do double duty there — the gateway's only identity is also what PocketBase
authenticates with. In the all-in-one that gateway is a second container rather
than a fourth process under supervisord: keeping the object store inside the
image, on the volume the files are being moved off, would have defeated the
point and would have meant rebuilding.
Files uploaded before the switch are not carried across; PocketBase copies
nothing, and both READMEs say so where an operator will read it.
The TLS overlay and its Caddyfile go. The section they served stays, without
them: nothing in the stack terminates TLS any more, so it now names the four
variables to set in front of whichever proxy already does — TRUST_FORWARDED_PROTO
being the one that decides whether a charger is believed about how it arrived.
Unexercised: this was written on a machine without Docker, so the pinned
SeaweedFS image, the bucket-create and the settings write have not been run
against a live stack. The Go side builds, vets and tests clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
01a8fec fixed the advice that led operators into this, but advice is not a
guard: a stack still running PB_BOOTSTRAP=false gets no app_settings
collection on upgrade, and the plugin panel sits at 503 while the retry
loop reads a collection that does not exist.
The fix is not to soften the reading. A missing collection stays "not
ready" rather than "no plugins configured", because the alternative lets
the first save write a fresh document over settings the server merely
failed to find - the failure this whole line of work exists to prevent.
Instead the server now fixes the cause: on a missing collection it creates
that collection and reads again.
Three pieces:
bootstrap.EnsureCollection creates one named collection from the desired
schema if absent, and nothing else. Deliberately narrower than Run - no
field reconcile elsewhere, no super-admin - so it is safe to call on a
deployment that turned the full bootstrap off. It creates the collection
the server cannot start without, not the schema the operator declined.
The store tells a missing collection apart from an outage. A 404 from a
list means the collection itself is gone: an existing but empty one answers
200 with no items. That is tagged errNoCollection, which wraps errNotReady
so every write is still refused, and IsMissingCollection narrows it. The
distinction matters because the remedies are opposites - creating
collections against a flaky database is exactly the wrong reflex, and a
test pins that an outage does not trigger it.
loadPlugins acts on the tag once, then re-reads. Failing to create is
reported as the original read error rather than the repair's, so the log
names the real problem.
Six tests: the tag and its negative in internal/plugins, and three in
internal/api against a fake PocketBase covering the collection being
created exactly once, an existing collection not being recreated, and an
outage creating nothing.
Docs from 01a8fec are corrected in the same pass - they said the panel
would answer 503 forever, which is no longer true. They now say what still
depends on the bootstrap (every other collection and field) and what does
not (app_settings alone).
go build, go vet and go test ./... pass; compose files still parse. Not
verified: no Docker CLI here, so the repair has not been exercised against
a real PocketBase, only the fake.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce registry-pull production stacks (docker-compose.prod.yml) for
both the multi-container Docker setup and the all-in-one Docker AIO image,
with everything an operator needs (superuser, super-admin, ports, volumes)
driven from .env.
The API Server now bootstraps PocketBase on startup: a new internal/bootstrap
package (Go port of setup-pocketbase.mjs) creates missing collections,
reconciles existing ones, and creates the DriverVault super-admin from
DRIVERVAULT_SUPERADMIN_* when absent. Idempotent and gated by PB_BOOTSTRAP.
The PocketBase superuser is still upserted by the PocketBase container, since
the REST API cannot bootstrap the first superuser.
Move PocketBase to port 8070 (internal + published) and the web app to 8090
across both stacks, with matching CORS defaults.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
