mailu/docs/swarm/master

Install Mailu on a docker swarm

Prequisites

Swarm

In order to deploy Mailu on a swarm, you will first need to initialize the swarm:

The main command will be:

docker swarm init --advertise-addr <IP_ADDR>

See https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/swarm-tutorial/create-swarm/

If you want to add other managers or workers, please use:

docker swarm join --token xxxxx 

See https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/join-nodes/

You have now a working swarm, and you can check its status with:

core@coreos-01 ~/git/Mailu/docs/swarm/1.5 $ docker node ls
ID                            HOSTNAME            STATUS              AVAILABILITY        MANAGER STATUS      ENGINE VERSION
xhgeekkrlttpmtgmapt5hyxrb     black-pearl         Ready               Active                                  18.06.0-ce
sczlqjgfhehsfdjhfhhph1nvb *   coreos-01           Ready               Active              Leader              18.03.1-ce
mzrm9nbdggsfz4sgq6dhs5i6n     flying-dutchman     Ready               Active                                  18.06.0-ce

Volume definition

For data persistance (the Mailu services might be launched/relaunched on any of the swarm nodes), we need to have Mailu data stored in a manner accessible by every manager or worker in the swarm. Hereafter we will use a NFS share:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ showmount -e 192.168.0.30
Export list for 192.168.0.30:
/mnt/Pool1/pv            192.168.0.0

on the nfs server, I am using the following /etc/exports

$more /etc/exports
/mnt/Pool1/pv -alldirs -mapall=root -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 

on the nfs server, I created the Mailu directory (in fact I copied a working Mailu set-up)

$mkdir /mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu

On your manager node, mount the nfs share to check that the share is available:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.0.30:/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu /mnt/local/

If this is ok, you can umount it:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ sudo umount /mnt/local/

Networking mode

On a swarm, the services are available (default mode) through a routing mesh managed by docker itself. With this mode, each service is given a virtual IP adress and docker manages the routing between this virtual IP and the container(s) providing this service.

In order to allow every (front & webmail) container to access the other services, we will use the variable POD_ADDRESS_RANGE.

Let's create the mailu_default network:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ docker network create -d overlay --attachable mailu_default
core@coreos-01 ~ $ docker network inspect mailu_default | grep Subnet
                    "Subnet": "10.0.1.0/24",

In the docker-compose.yml file, we will then use POD_ADDRESS_RANGE = 10.0.1.0/24

Nota: on my setup, imap & smtp logs doesn't show the IPs from the front(s) container(s), but the IP of "mailu_default-endpoint". So it might be sufficient to set POD_ADDRESS_RANGE to this specific ip (which can be found by inspecting mailu_default network)

Scalability

• smtp and imap are scalable
• front and webmail are scalable (pending POD_ADDRESS_RANGE is used), although the let's encrypt magic might not like it (race condidtion ? or risk to be banned by let's encrypt server if too many front containers attemps to renew the certs at the same time)
• redis, antispam, antivirus, fetchmail, admin, webdav have not been tested (hence replicas=1 in the following docker-compose.yml file)

Variable substitution and docker-compose.yml

The docker stack deploy command doesn't support variable substitution in the .yml file itself (but we still can use .env file to pass variables to the services). As a consequence we need to adjust the docker-compose file in order to :

• remove all variables : $VERSION , $BIND_ADDRESS4 , $BIND_ADDRESS6 , $ANTIVIRUS , $WEBMAIL , etc
• change the way we define the volumes (nfs share in our case)
• add a deploy section for every service

Docker compose

An example of docker-compose-stack.yml file is available here:

version: '3.2'

services:

  front:
    image: mailu/nginx:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    ports:
      - target: 80
        published: 80
      - target: 443
        published: 443
      - target: 110
        published: 110
      - target: 143
        published: 143
      - target: 993
        published: 993
      - target: 995
        published: 995
      - target: 25
        published: 25
      - target: 465
        published: 465
      - target: 587
        published: 587
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/certs:/certs"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_certs
        target: /certs
    deploy:
      replicas: 2

  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    restart: always
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/redis:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_redis
        target: /data
    deploy:
      replicas: 1

  imap:
    image: mailu/dovecot:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    environment:
      - POD_ADDRESS_RANGE=10.0.1.0/24
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/data:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_data
        target: /data
#      - "$ROOT/mail:/mail"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_mail
        target: /mail
#      - "$ROOT/overrides:/overrides"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_overrides
        target: /overrides
    depends_on:
      - front
    deploy:
      replicas: 2

  smtp:
    image: mailu/postfix:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    environment:
      - POD_ADDRESS_RANGE=10.0.1.0/24
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/data:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_data
        target: /data
#      - "$ROOT/overrides:/overrides"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_overrides
        target: /overrides
    depends_on:
      - front
    deploy:
      replicas: 2

  antispam:
    image: mailu/rspamd:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    environment:
      - POD_ADDRESS_RANGE=10.0.1.0/24
    depends_on:
      - front
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/filter:/var/lib/rspamd"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_filter
        target: /var/lib/rspamd
#      - "$ROOT/dkim:/dkim"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_dkim
        target: /dkim
#      - "$ROOT/overrides/rspamd:/etc/rspamd/override.d"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_overrides_rspamd
        target: /etc/rspamd/override.d
    deploy:
      replicas: 1

  antivirus:
    image: mailu/none:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/filter:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_filter
        target: /data
    deploy:
      replicas: 1

  webdav:
    image: mailu/none:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/dav:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_dav
        target: /data
    deploy:
      replicas: 1

  admin:
    image: mailu/admin:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/data:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_data
        target: /data
#      - "$ROOT/dkim:/dkim"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_dkim
        target: /dkim
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    depends_on:
      - redis
    deploy:
      replicas: 1

  webmail:
    image: "mailu/roundcube:master"
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/webmail:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_data
        target: /data
    depends_on:
      - imap
    deploy:
      replicas: 2

  fetchmail:
    image: mailu/fetchmail:master
    restart: always
    env_file: .env
    volumes:
#      - "$ROOT/data:/data"
      - type: volume
        source: mailu_data
        target: /data
    deploy:
      replicas: 1

networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: mailu_default

volumes:
  mailu_filter:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/filter"
  mailu_dkim:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/dkim"
  mailu_overrides_rspamd:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/overrides/rspamd"
  mailu_data:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/data"
  mailu_mail:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/mail"
  mailu_overrides:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/overrides"
  mailu_dav:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/dav"
  mailu_certs:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/certs"
  mailu_redis:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=192.168.0.30,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/Pool1/pv/mailu/redis"

Deploy Mailu on the docker swarm

Run the following command:

docker stack deploy -c docker-compose-stack.yml mailu

See how the services are being deployed:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ docker service ls
ID                  NAME                                 MODE                REPLICAS            IMAGE                                     PORTS
ywnsetmtkb1l        mailu_antivirus                      replicated          1/1                 mailu/none:1.5
pqokiaz0q128        mailu_fetchmail                      replicated          1/1                 mailu/fetchmail:1.5

check a specific service:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ docker service ps mailu_fetchmail
ID                  NAME                IMAGE                 NODE                DESIRED STATE       CURRENT STATE         ERROR               PORTS
tbu8ppgsdffj        mailu_fetchmail.1   mailu/fetchmail:1.5   coreos-01           Running             Running 11 days ago

Remove the stack

Run the follwoing command:

core@coreos-01 ~ $ docker stack rm mailu