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-# paperless-ngx
+# paperless-ngx Docker Compose files
 
+Docker Compose files to spin up an instance of paperless-ngx.
+
+# How to run
+
+Add a `COMPOSE_ENV` file and save its location as a shell variable along with the location where this repo lives, here for example `/opt/containers/paperless_ngx` plus all other variables. At [env/fqdn_context.env.example](env/fqdn_context.env.example) you'll find an example environment file.
+
+When everything's ready start paperless-ngx with Docker Compose, otherwise head down to [Initial setup](#initial-setup) first.
+
+## Environment
+
+We're assuming that the upstream Git repo [github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx) is checked out locally. In our example we're assuming it's living at `/opt/git/github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tags/latest`. The repo contains multiple Docker Compose files in [docker/compose](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tree/dev/docker/compose) dir, we'll be using one of them as our baseline.
+
+```
+export UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR='/opt/git/github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/tags/latest'
+export UPSTREAM_COMPOSE_FILE="${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR%/}"'/docker/compose/docker-compose.postgres-tika.yml'
+export COMPOSE_CTX='ux_vilnius'
+export COMPOSE_PROJECT='paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"
+export COMPOSE_PROJECT_DIR='/opt/containers/paperless_ngx'
+export COMPOSE_OVERRIDE="${COMPOSE_PROJECT_DIR%/}"'/compose.override.yaml'
+export COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS="${COMPOSE_PROJECT_DIR%/}"'/common-settings.yaml'
+export COMPOSE_ENV=<add accordingly>
+export PAPERLESS_NGX_VERSION='2.14.7'
+```
+
+## Prep upstream Git repo
+
+```
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" reset --hard origin
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" checkout dev
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" pull
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" checkout 'v'"${PAPERLESS_NGX_VERSION}"
+```
+
+## Context
+
+On your deployment machine create the necessary Docker context to connect to and control the Docker daemon on whatever target host you'll be using, for example:
+```
+docker context create fully.qualified.domain.name --docker 'host=ssh://root@fully.qualified.domain.name'
+```
+
+## Pull
+
+Pull images from Docker Hub verbatim.
+
+```
+docker compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${UPSTREAM_COMPOSE_FILE}" --file "${COMPOSE_OVERRIDE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" pull
+```
+
+## Copy to target
+
+Copy images to target Docker host, that is assuming you deploy to a machine that itself has no network route to reach Docker Hub or your private registry of choice. Copying in its simplest form involves a local `docker save` and a remote `docker load`. Consider the helper mini-project [quico.space/Quico/copy-docker](https://quico.space/Quico/copy-docker) where [copy-docker.sh](https://quico.space/Quico/copy-docker/src/branch/main/copy-docker.sh) allows the following workflow:
+
+```
+while IFS= read -u 10 -r image; do
+    copy-docker "${image}" fully.qualified.domain.name
+done 10< <(docker compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${UPSTREAM_COMPOSE_FILE}" --file "${COMPOSE_OVERRIDE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" config | grep -Pi -- 'image:' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq)
+```
+
+## Start
+
+```
+docker --context 'fully.qualified.domain.name' compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${UPSTREAM_COMPOSE_FILE}" --file "${COMPOSE_OVERRIDE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" up --detach
+```
+
+# Initial setup
+
+We're assuming you run Docker Compose workloads with ZFS-based bind mounts. ZFS management, creating a zpool and setting adequate properties for its datasets is out of scope of this document.
+
+## Datasets
+
+Create ZFS datasets and set permissions as needed.
+
+* Parent dateset
+    ```
+    export "$(grep -Pi -- '^CONTEXT=' "${COMPOSE_ENV}")"
+    zfs create -o canmount=off zpool/data/opt
+    zfs create -o mountpoint=/opt/docker-data zpool/data/opt/docker-data
+    ```
+
+* Container-specific datasets
+    ```
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/broker/data'
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/db/data'
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/webserver/consume'
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/webserver/data'
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/webserver/export'
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/webserver/media'
+    ```
+
+* Change ownership
+    ```
+    chown -R 999:999 '/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/'{'broker','db'}'/'*
+    chown -R 1000:1000 '/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/webserver/'*
+    ```
+
+## Additional files
+
+No additional files are needed to get started.
+
+Head back up to [How to run](#how-to-run).
+
+# Development
+
+## Conventional commits
+
+This project uses [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) for its commit messages.
+
+### Commit types
+
+Commit _types_ besides `fix` and `feat` are:
+
+- `refactor`: Keeping functionality while streamlining or otherwise improving function flow
+- `docs`: Documentation for project or components
+
+### Commit scopes
+
+The following _scopes_ are known for this project. A Conventional Commits commit message may optionally use one of the following scopes or none:
+
+- `paperless_ngx`: A change to how the `paperless_ngx` service component works
+- `build`: Build-related changes such as `Dockerfile` fixes and features.
+- `mount`: Volume or bind mount-related changes.
+- `net`: Networking, IP addressing, routing changes
+- `meta`: Affects the project's repo layout, file names etc.
diff --git a/common-settings.yaml b/common-settings.yaml
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+services:
+    common-settings:
+        environment:
+            TZ: "${TIMEZONE:-Etc/UTC}"
+        logging:
+            driver: "json-file"
+            options:
+                max-size: "10m"
+                max-file: "10"
+                compress: "true"
+        restart: "${RESTARTPOLICY:-always}"
diff --git a/compose.override.yaml b/compose.override.yaml
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+services:
+    broker:
+        container_name: "paperless_ngx-broker-${CONTEXT}"
+        networks:
+            paperless_ngx-default:
+        extends:
+            file: "${COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS}"
+            service: 'common-settings'
+        volumes:
+            - "/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}/broker/data:/data"
+    db:
+        image: "docker.io/library/postgres:${PGSQL_VERSION}"
+        container_name: "paperless_ngx-db-${CONTEXT}"
+        networks:
+            paperless_ngx-default:
+        extends:
+            file: "${COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS}"
+            service: 'common-settings'
+        volumes:
+            - "/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}/db/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data"
+    gotenberg:
+        container_name: "paperless_ngx-gotenberg-${CONTEXT}"
+        networks:
+            paperless_ngx-default:
+        extends:
+            file: "${COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS}"
+            service: 'common-settings'
+    tika:
+        container_name: "paperless_ngx-tika-${CONTEXT}"
+        networks:
+            paperless_ngx-default:
+        extends:
+            file: "${COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS}"
+            service: 'common-settings'
+    webserver:
+        image: "ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:${PAPERLESS_NGX_VERSION}"
+        container_name: "paperless_ngx-webserver-${CONTEXT}"
+        networks:
+            paperless_ngx-default:
+        ports: !override
+            - "${WEBSERVER_VIP}:${WEBSERVER_PORT}:8000"
+        extends:
+            file: "${COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS}"
+            service: 'common-settings'
+        volumes:
+            - "/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}/webserver/data:/usr/src/paperless/data"
+            - "/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}/webserver/media:/usr/src/paperless/media"
+            - "/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}/webserver/export:/usr/src/paperless/export"
+            - "/opt/docker-data/paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}/webserver/consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume"
+        environment:
+            PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE: "${PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE}"
+            PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGES: "${PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGES}"
+            PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY: "${PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY}"
+            PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE: "${PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE}"
+            PAPERLESS_URL: "${PAPERLESS_URL}"
+            PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST: "${PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST}"
+            PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD: "${PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD}"
+            PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST_USER: "${PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST_USER}"
+            PAPERLESS_EMAIL_PORT: "${PAPERLESS_EMAIL_PORT}"
+            PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL: "${PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL}"
+            PAPERLESS_OCR_CLEAN: "${PAPERLESS_OCR_CLEAN}"
+volumes: !reset []
+networks: !override
+    paperless_ngx-default:
+        name: paperless_ngx-${CONTEXT}
+        driver: bridge
+        driver_opts:
+            com.docker.network.enable_ipv6: "false"
+        ipam:
+            driver: default
+            config:
+                - subnet: ${SUBNET}
diff --git a/env/fqdn_context.env.example b/env/fqdn_context.env.example
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+CONTEXT=ux_vilnius
+PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST=smtp.example.com
+PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=my-email-password
+PAPERLESS_EMAIL_HOST_USER=mail@example.com
+PAPERLESS_EMAIL_PORT=465
+PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL=true
+PAPERLESS_OCR_CLEAN=clean-final
+PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=swe
+PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGES=jpn jpn-vert
+PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY=my-secret-key
+PAPERLESS_TIME_ZONE=Europe/San_Marino
+PAPERLESS_URL=https://fully.qualified.domain.name
+PGSQL_VERSION=16
+SUBNET=172.30.95.0/24
+TIMEZONE=Europe/San_Marino
+WEBSERVER_PORT=61000
+WEBSERVER_VIP=10.10.10.1
+
+# Other available defaults
+# USERMAP_UID=1000
+# USERMAP_GID=1000
+# PAPERLESS_FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME=/PATHPREFIX
+# PAPERLESS_STATIC_URL=/PATHPREFIX/static/ # trailing slash required
+# RESTARTPOLICY=always
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