tajniak81andClaude Opus 5
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01a8fecfixed 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 from01a8fecare 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>
DriverVault — Docker AIO (all-in-one image)
PocketBase + API Server + Web App in a single container, supervised by
supervisord with nginx serving the SPA and proxying /api/ to the API Server
on localhost. One image, one volume set, no compose network — the simplest way
to stand DriverVault up on a single host.
Prefer the three-container stack in ../Docker when you want to
scale, upgrade or restart the pieces independently.
:80 nginx ─► SPA, and /api/ ─► API Server on 127.0.0.1:8080 ─► PocketBase on :8070
| File | Use |
|---|---|
Dockerfile |
the all-in-one image (build context must be the repo root) |
docker-compose.yml |
builds from source — for development and local testing |
docker-compose.prod.yml |
pulls the prebuilt image from the registry |
.env.example / .env.prod.example |
copy to .env for the matching compose file |
Run it
cd "Docker-AIO"
cp .env.example .env # then edit — PB_ADMIN_* have no safe defaults
docker compose up -d --build
Production, from the registry:
cp .env.prod.example .env # then edit
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml pull
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d
Then: web app on http://host:8090/, the API Server's superadmin panel on
http://host:8080/, PocketBase admin on http://host:8070/_/.
Note the port mapping: inside the container the web app is on 80, published
as WEB_PORT (8090 by default) to line up with the other deployment.
Building by hand
The build context must be the repo root so the Dockerfile can reach both
API Server/ and Web App/:
docker build -f "Docker-AIO/Dockerfile" -t drivervault-aio .
Build args: VITE_API_BASE (leave empty so the bundle uses same-origin /api)
and PB_VERSION, which the Dockerfile already pins. Override it to build a
different PocketBase; set it to an empty string to resolve the latest release at
build time instead.
First boot
Identical to the multi-container stack, and idempotent:
- PocketBase upserts its superuser from
PB_ADMIN_EMAIL/PB_ADMIN_PASSWORD. - The API Server waits for PocketBase to report healthy, then creates any
missing collections, reconciles existing ones, and creates the first app
superadminfromDRIVERVAULT_SUPERADMIN_EMAIL/_PASSWORD.
Leave
PB_BOOTSTRAPattrue, including across upgrades. A release can add collections or fields the server needs, and a stack that skipped the bootstrap never gets them. The API Server self-heals exactly one thing —app_settings, the collection holding the plugin settings, which it creates on demand because it cannot serve the plugin panel without it. Every other schema change still depends on this flag, so turn it off only for a database you know already matches the release you are running.
Volumes
| Volume | Holds |
|---|---|
/pb/pb_data |
the PocketBase SQLite database and uploaded files |
/data |
the .env the API Server panel rewrites when a superadmin retargets the PocketBase connection (plugin settings live in /pb/pb_data, with everything else) |
Both default to Docker-managed named volumes; set PB_DATA / API_DATA to
absolute host paths in the prod file for bind mounts.
Charger control (OCPP)
Chargers in own/proxy mode dial in to /ocpp/{serial} on the API Server port
(8080) — not through nginx — authenticating with a per-charger control token
in an OCPP Basic-auth header. Because a plaintext ws:// would expose that
token, OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS defaults to true.
This image serves plain HTTP, so charger control needs TLS terminated in front
of it, with OCPP_PUBLIC_URL set to the public wss:// base. Only drop
OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS on a trusted network.
Caveats
- PocketBase and the API Server run as the unprivileged
appuser; only nginx stays root, because it binds port 80. A crash ofsupervisordstill takes all three services down together — that is the trade for the simplicity. - Logs from all three processes are interleaved on the container's stdout/stderr
(
docker logs drivervault-aio). PB_VERSIONis pinned in the Dockerfile so two builds of the same source agree. Setting it to an empty string restores the old behaviour of resolving the latest release at build time, which also costs an unauthenticated GitHub API call and is subject to that 60/hour per-IP rate limit.- The container reports health once all three processes answer their probes, so
a wedged component shows up in
docker psrather than looking up.