Sendy docker provisioning script

The goal of this repository is to automate the setting up of a docker-compose stack for sendy.

Advantages of this docker stack:

• Downloads the latest sendy for you
• Configuration is done through a .env file and is easy to manage
• Automatically sets up a reverse proxy with (free) TLS certificates
• Allows easy import of your old sendy database (see database-imports)

Usage

1. Clone this repository
2. Populate the .env file with the required variables, see .env.example
3. Run bash scripts/provision.sh

I recommend setting up your A record to your subdomain and setting SERVER_IP_OR_DOMAIN to the live subdomain. The swag container needs the domain to resolve to the server ip address to set up the TLS certificates.

Note that the uploads folder of sendy is mounted to the host file system for persistence, and so you can easily add and manage files in that folder.

What does it do?

This script suite:

1. Installs docker
2. Starts a docker-compose sendy stack (apache + mysql)
3. Starts a reverse proxy for sendy

Requirements

1. You have a domain name
2. You have a server with a public IP address (recommended: Ubuntu 22.04 server with a public IP address, minimum of 1G RAM)
3. You have a subdomain pointing to the server
4. You have a valid sendy license key for your domain

Extending this docker stack

If you intend to run other services on the same server (for example a URL shortener), you can extend this docker stack by changing two things:

1. Create a new docker compose file in the format docker-compose.YOUR_SERVICE_NAME.yml
   • Remember to add the networks section to the file
2. Create a new proxy config, see swag/nginx/proxy-confs/
3. Add your subdomains to the ADDITIONAL_SUBDOMAINS variable in the .env file