Docker and container deployments

Running Odoo in containers for staging and production: images, Compose stacks, proxies, persistent volumes, updates and backups.

In this lesson

A production container stack
Updating and rolling back
Backups and choosing the platform

Key points

Pinned image, PostgreSQL with persistent volume or managed DB, proxy with TLS/websocket
Mounted config, secrets via env
Update with a one-off --stop-after-init container; keep previous tag
Back up DB + filestore off-host; prefer what your team can operate

Real-world example

A team upgraded production by changing the image tag to latest; a new major version pulled in and failed to start against the old database. Pinning tags, building their own image and running updates in a one-off container ended surprise upgrades.

Questions and answers

Why bake modules into the image?

Reproducible deployments; the same artefact runs in staging and production.

What does a health check do?

Lets Docker detect and restart an unhealthy container.

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