Docker for Odoo

Images, containers, volumes and networks, the official Odoo image, Compose for dev and small production, and its limits.

In this lesson

Images, containers and volumes
Compose and running Odoo commands
Production considerations

Key points

odoo:20.0 + postgres:16; addons at /mnt/extra-addons; filestore at /var/lib/odoo
Volumes or you lose data
Build FROM odoo:20.0 for extra Python packages
Production: proxy + TLS, workers, backups of both volumes, pinned tags, health checks

Real-world example

A developer's docker compose down -v deleted both volumes and with them a week of test data. The team added a backup script, removed -v from habits, and documented 'down -v destroys data' in the README.

Questions and answers

Which two volumes must be backed up?

PostgreSQL data and the Odoo filestore (/var/lib/odoo).

Why pin odoo:20.0 rather than latest?

So major upgrades happen deliberately.

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