Coolify pulls from GitHub and runs docker compose build — no guaranteed
env vars like SOURCE_COMMIT. Previous approach relied on ARG/ENV
passthrough that silently defaulted to "dev".
Fix: install git in the builder stage, COPY .git into context, run
git describe --tags --always to derive the version, write it to
/app/server/.bf-version. version.ts reads this file as a fallback
between env vars and the "dev" literal.
Chain: BF_SERVER_VERSION env → BF_BUILD_VERSION env → .bf-version file
→ COOLIFY_GIT_COMMIT env → SOURCE_COMMIT env → "dev".
Also: fix .gitignore for rauc-signing/ (was under wrong path).
- Bake @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard into Node-RED Docker image
- Fire-and-forget syncDashboardsFromNodered() on GET /admin/entities
so dashboard tabs appear without manual sync button click
- server Dockerfile installs wget — bookworm-slim doesn't include it
by default, so the healthcheck CMD silently failed → Coolify marked
the container unhealthy.
- nodered healthcheck swapped to /nrdp/ (always 200 when runtime up)
via wget --spider; previous /nrdp/auth/login returned non-2xx when
adminAuth disabled.
- start_period bumped to 90s for nodered's flow load on smaller hosts.
- Kiosk discovery: cloud fallback now frame-eu.betterportal.net per
the managed-fleet endpoint.
Previous deploy left /data/settings.js as a DIRECTORY (Docker auto-mkdir
from a failed bind mount earlier). cp from non-root user then failed
'Permission denied' writing inside it.
Entrypoint now:
- Detects + rm -rf the stale directory
- Seeds /data/settings.js from /usr/src/bf-settings.js
- Chowns /data to node-red
- exec su-exec node-red:node-red to drop privileges before npm start
The /data named volume hides anything Dockerfile COPYs into /data, so
the previous CMD override pointing at /usr/src/bf-settings.js didn't
help — Node-RED's launch script still looks for /data/settings.js by
default, which doesn't exist after the volume overlays.
Solution: entrypoint wrapper copies /usr/src/bf-settings.js to
/data/settings.js on first boot when missing, then exec's npm start.
Subsequent boots keep the user-edited version in the volume.
Coolify deployments don't always carry the full source tree on disk
at the bind-mount source path. Mounting a missing file lets Docker
auto-create a directory at the target, which then fails to mount over
the file the image expects.
Fix: bake config files into the images themselves:
- Dockerfile.server COPYs deploy/docker/sec-config.yaml → /app/server/.
Env vars (BF_*) still override at runtime per env-overrides.ts.
- New Dockerfile.angie wraps nginx:alpine + baked betterframe.docker.conf.
- Dockerfile.nodered COPYs nodered-settings.js to /usr/src/bf-settings.js
(outside the /data volume) and uses --settings to point at it.
Compose drops the three bind mounts; volumes are now strictly
runtime state (DB + secrets, Node-RED flows). Users who want a
different sec-config still get full control via env overrides or
Coolify's Storage UI.
Coolify passes --project-directory <repo-root> so relative paths in
compose resolved from there, not from the compose file's directory.
context: ../.. then climbed to / and lstat /deploy failed.
Moving compose to repo root makes every relative path
project-dir-relative regardless of who's invoking compose. Local
'docker compose up' from repo root and Coolify's
--project-directory + -f both resolve identically.
Coolify users: update the resource's compose path to 'docker-compose.yml'
(was 'deploy/docker/docker-compose.yml'). Existing named volumes carry
over since the named: directive keeps them.
BF_DATA_VOLUME_NAME, NODERED_DATA_VOLUME_NAME, BF_HOST_PORT keep the
compose public while letting per-deployment specifics (host paths,
multiple staging/prod instances on one host, alternate edge ports)
land in Coolify's env tab. Defaults preserve current behaviour.
Server mints a dedicated admin API key on first boot (persisted plaintext
encrypted in setup_state.extras) and POSTs a bf-server-config node into
Node-RED's flow graph via /nrdp/flows. Idempotent — skips if any
bf-server-config already exists, so user-owned configs win.
New admin-http config 'selfUrl' (defaults to http://127.0.0.1:18080)
tells Node-RED how to reach the BF server. Docker compose sets it to
http://server:18080 so requests stay inside the compose network.
Node-RED only scans userDir/node_modules by default. Setting
nodesDir explicitly tells it to also scan our baked-in path,
which survives the /data volume mount.
- New deploy/docker/Dockerfile.nodered extends nodered/node-red,
npm-installs the workspace nodered/ package into
/usr/src/node-red/node_modules so bf-* nodes auto-load on boot.
- docker-compose nodered service switched from public image to
this build context. Rebuilding (--build) picks up node changes.
- Dockerfile.server: RUN npm run build during builder stage so the
image ships pre-compiled lib/ + bsb-plugin.json. Runtime image also
installs ffmpeg (for camera snapshot endpoint).
- DisplayEditPage Show buttons + Switch dropdown now use hx-post
with hx-swap=none — no page reload, just fires the command.
Bind native backend services and Node-RED to loopback so Angie remains the public auth boundary. Keep Docker on an internal compose network and stop kiosk fallback to a layout when display default is none.
