Can not create manager local container from sources

Custom Deployment
1

I am new in the openRemote ecosystem and I tend to modify both backend (i.e. create a new asset) and frontend as well. For that reason:

  1. I successfully deployed locally the openRemote by following the “Quick Start” Tutorial

  2. By following the “Developer Guide: Setting up an IDE” tutorial, I managed to create a new asset and to visualize it on the map.

  3. Then and in order to modify slightly the Manager UI, I decided to deploy the Manager using a local docker container (build from modified sources to support my new asset). Therefore, I followed the UI Development profile and run the following commands:

.\gradlew clean installDist
docker-compose -f profile\dev-ui.yml build

The result is than no local images are build. No action performed. No container run.

I have also tried the following command:

docker-compose -f profile\dev-ui.yml up --build

It instantiates the containers from the images downloaded during step1. No local images created.

I have also tried to delete the images downloaded during step 1 and then to rerun the last command. It downloaded the images from your docker registry and instatiated them as containers.

I am working on a PC running windows 11 and docker desktop ver 4.4.4 (73704).

2

Well, at the risk of saying something unhelpful as I’m no developer:
With the containers running you can now serve the ui with npm run serve, and maybe some additional configuration: Developer Guide: UI apps and components · openremote/openremote Wiki · GitHub

3

Just to add some info:

The deploy.yml which is referenced by the dev-ui.yml profile doesn’t have build entries for the manager, this was removed as it made the compose profile un-usable due to a long standing bug where build dirs must exist even if you want to use images in the cache/from docker hub.

If you’ve modified the manager code (including UI) then running:

gradlew clean installDist will prepare the manager docker image build files and you can then run the following to build the manager image and tag it as openremote/manager:latest in your local cache:

docker build -t openremote/manager:latest ./manager/build/install/manager

When you start the stack it will then use your newly built image (just slightly bit to type than docker-compose build).

4

It worked! Now I have a local image that contains both manager and ui modifications.

Thank you very much.

I have one more question.

Can I deploy the Manager (as backend) using a local docker container and do modifications in the ui part (by running: npm run modelWatch, npm run serve) as proposed in the “Working on the UI” tutorial?

5

Yes you can run the manager in docker and then use npm run serve to work on the UI code you just need to configure the managerUrl to be https://localhost as described in this section: