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-# signal-cli-rest-api
+# signal-cli-rest-api Docker Compose files
 
-Docker deployment steps for signal-cli-rest-api: communicate with Signal messenger users via a RESTful API
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+Docker Compose files to spin up an instance of signal-cli-rest-api.
+
+# How to run
+
+We depend on the project's upstream GitHub repo at [github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api](https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api) which comes with a [docker-compose.yml](https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/blob/master/docker-compose.yml) file that we're using as our base file in `docker compose` commands.
+
+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/signal_cli_rest_api` 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 signal-cli-rest-api with Docker Compose, otherwise head down to [Initial setup](#initial-setup) first.
+
+## Environment
+
+We're assuming that the `master` branch of [github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api](https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api) is checked out at `/opt/git/github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/tags/latest`. We'll get to the `tags/latest` nomenclature in sec. 
+
+```
+export UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR='/opt/git/github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/tags/latest'
+export UPSTREAM_COMPOSE_FILE="${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR%/}"'/docker-compose.yml'
+export COMPOSE_CTX='ux_vilnius'
+export COMPOSE_PROJECT='signal_cli_rest_api-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"
+export COMPOSE_PROJECT_DIR='/opt/containers/signal_cli_rest_api'
+export COMPOSE_OVERRIDE="${COMPOSE_PROJECT_DIR%/}"'/docker-compose.override.yaml'
+export COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS="${COMPOSE_PROJECT_DIR%/}"'/common-settings.yaml'
+export COMPOSE_ENV=<add accordingly>
+```
+
+## Prepare upstream Git repo
+
+Check out the newest branch of [github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api](https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api). Notice that we're referencing `"${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}"` from above and that we're storing the current Git `refname` of our branch in `"${VERSION}"`. This is typically a string such as `0.91` and happens to coincide with Docker image tags used at [Docker Hub at bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api](https://hub.docker.com/r/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api).
+
+```
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" reset --hard origin
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" checkout master
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" pull
+export VERSION="$(git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" tag -l --sort -version:refname | head -n 1)"
+git -C "${UPSTREAM_REPO_DIR}" checkout "${VERSION}"
+```
+
+## Context
+
+On your deployment machine create the necessary Docker context to connect to and control the Docker daemon on whatever target host you'll be using, for example:
+```
+docker context create fully.qualified.domain.name --docker 'host=ssh://root@fully.qualified.domain.name'
+```
+
+## Pull
+
+Pull images from Docker Hub verbatim.
+
+```
+docker compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${UPSTREAM_COMPOSE_FILE}" --file "${COMPOSE_OVERRIDE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" pull
+```
+
+## Copy to target
+
+Copy images to target Docker host, that is assuming you deploy to a machine that itself has no network route to reach Docker Hub or your private registry of choice. Copying in its simplest form involves a local `docker save` and a remote `docker load`. Consider the helper mini-project [quico.space/Quico/copy-docker](https://quico.space/Quico/copy-docker) where [copy-docker.sh](https://quico.space/Quico/copy-docker/src/branch/main/copy-docker.sh) allows the following workflow. Note that `"${VERSION}"` comes from the Git `refname` we used a second ago.
+
+```
+copy-docker 'bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:'"${VERSION}" fully.qualified.domain.name
+```
+
+## Start
+
+```
+docker --context 'fully.qualified.domain.name' compose --project-name "${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=' "${COMPOSE_ENV}")"
+    zfs create -o canmount=off zpool/data/opt
+    zfs create -o mountpoint=/opt/docker-data zpool/data/opt/docker-data
+    ```
+
+* Container-specific datasets
+    ```
+    zfs create -p 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/signal_cli_rest_api-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/config'
+    ```
+
+* Change ownership
+    ```
+    export "$(grep -Pi -- '^[UG]ID=' "${COMPOSE_ENV}")"
+    chown -R "${UID}"':'"${GID}" 'zpool/data/opt/docker-data/signal_cli_rest_api-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"'/config'
+    ```
+
+## Additional files
+
+No additional files are needed to get started.
+
+Head back up to [How to run](#how-to-run).
+
+# Development
+
+## Conventional commits
+
+This project uses [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) for its commit messages.
+
+### Commit types
+
+Commit _types_ besides `fix` and `feat` are:
+
+- `refactor`: Keeping functionality while streamlining or otherwise improving function flow
+- `docs`: Documentation for project or components
+
+### Commit scopes
+
+The following _scopes_ are known for this project. A Conventional Commits commit message may optionally use one of the following scopes or none:
+
+- `signal_cli_rest_api`: A change to how the `signal_cli_rest_api` service component works
+- `build`: Build-related changes such as `Dockerfile` fixes and features.
+- `mount`: Volume or bind mount-related changes.
+- `net`: Networking, IP addressing, routing changes
+- `meta`: Affects the project's repo layout, file names etc.
diff --git a/common-settings.yaml b/common-settings.yaml
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+services:
+    common-settings:
+        environment:
+            TZ: "${TIMEZONE:-Etc/UTC}"
+        logging:
+            driver: "json-file"
+            options:
+                max-size: "10m"
+                max-file: "10"
+                compress: "true"
+        restart: "${RESTARTPOLICY:-always}"
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+services:
+    signal-cli-rest-api:
+        image: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:${VERSION}
+        container_name: "signal_cli_rest_api-${CONTEXT}"
+        extends:
+            file: "${COMPOSE_COMMON_SETTINGS}"
+            service: common-settings
+        networks:
+            signal_cli_rest_api-default:
+        environment:
+            MODE: "${MODE}"
+            SIGNAL_CLI_UID: "${UID}"
+            SIGNAL_CLI_GID: "${GID}"
+        volumes:
+            - "${CFG_VOLUME}:/home/.local/share/signal-cli"
+        ports: !override
+            - "${PORT}:8080"
+
+networks:
+    signal_cli_rest_api-default:
+        name: "signal_cli_rest_api-${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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+CFG_VOLUME=/path/to/config/config
+CTX=loft
+GID=50000
+MODE=json-rpc
+PORT=61000
+SUBNET=172.30.95.0/24
+UID=50000
+# Only when MODE is not "json-rpc":
+# AUTO_RECEIVE_SCHEDULE=0 22 * * *
+
+# Other available defaults
+# RESTARTPOLICY=unless-stopped
+# TIMEZONE=Etc/UTC