Grist has for some time supported a sandbox based on pyodide.
It is a bit slower to start than the gvisor-based sandbox, but
can run in situations where it can't. Until now it hasn't been
easy to use when running Grist as a container, since the support
files weren't included. This change rectifies that omission.
Nothing changes by default. But now if you start Grist as a container
and set `GRIST_SANDBOX_FLAVOR=pyodide`, it should work rather than
fail.
This adds a docker.io registry name, the lack of which will otherwise
cause image building to fail if podman is used rather than docker.
Common images like node are automatically aliased and don't need
the registry name. Based on a problem reported in discord.
https://discord.com/channels/1176642613022044301/1214877650108026881
* run.sh: Replace pid with nodejs's one using exec
This notably ensures that "docker stop" sends a TERM signal to the node
process which can handle it gracefully and avoid document corruption.
* Use exec form for CMD in Dockerfile
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Co-authored-by: Florent FAYOLLE <florent.fayolle@beta.gouv.fr>
Summary:
Changes the minimum version of Node to 18, and updates the Docker images and GitHub workflows to build Grist with Node 18.
Also updates various dependencies and scripts to support building running tests with arm64 builds of Node.
Test Plan: Existing tests.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3968
* Replace `ormconfig.js` with a newer mechanism of configuring
TypeORM that can be included in the source code properly.
The path to `ormconfig.js` has always been awkward to handle,
and eliminating the file makes building different Grist setups
a bit simpler.
* Remove `electron` package. It is barely used, just for some old
remnants of an older attempt at electron packaging. It was used
for two types, which I left at `any` for now. More code pruning is
no doubt possible here, but I'd rather do it when Electron packaging
has solidified.
* Add a hook for replacing the login system, and for adding some
extra middleware the login system may need.
* Add support for some more possible locations of Python, which
arise when a standalone version of it is included in the Electron
package. This isn't very general purpose, just configurations
that I found useful.
* Support using grist-core within a yarn workspace - the only tweak
needed was webpack related.
* Allow an external ID to be optionally associated with documents.
Summary:
The docker build touches very little of the test directory, but
just enough to have broken after a chai-as-promised related refactor.
This adds a file that is sufficient to get the build rolling again.
Test Plan:
confirmed this change is sufficient to build functional
docker images
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3514
Summary:
Currently, we have two ways that we deliver Grist. One is grist-core,
which has simple defaults and is relatively easy for third parties to
deploy. The second is our internal build for our SaaS, which is the
opposite. For self-managed Grist, a planned paid on-premise version
of Grist, I adopt the following approach:
* Use the `grist-core` build mechanism, extending it to accept an
overlay of extra code if present.
* Extra code is supplied in a self-contained `ext` directory, with
an `ext/app` directory that is of same structure as core `app`
and `stubs/app`.
* The `ext` directory also contains information about extra
node dependencies needed beyond that of `grist-core`.
* The `ext` directory is contained within our monorepo rather than
`grist-core` since it may contain material not under the Apache
license.
Docker builds are achieved in our monorepo by using the `--build-context`
functionality to add in `ext` during the regular `grist-core` build:
```
docker buildx build --load -t gristlabs/grist-ee --build-context=ext=../ext .
```
Incremental builds in our monorepo are achieved with the `build_core.sh` helper,
like:
```
buildtools/build_core.sh /tmp/self-managed
cd /tmp/self-managed
yarn start
```
The initial `ext` directory contains material for snapshotting to S3.
If you build the docker image as above, and have S3 access, you can
do something like:
```
docker run -p 8484:8484 --env GRIST_SESSION_SECRET=a-secret \
--env GRIST_DOCS_S3_BUCKET=grist-docs-test \
--env GRIST_DOCS_S3_PREFIX=self-managed \
-v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws -it gristlabs/grist-ee
```
This will start a version of Grist that is like `grist-core` but with
S3 snapshots enabled. To release this code to `grist-core`, it would
just need to move from `ext/app` to `app` within core.
I tried a lot of ways of organizing self-managed Grist, and this was
what made me happiest. There are a lot of trade-offs, but here is what
I was looking for:
* Only OSS-code in grist-core. Adding mixed-license material there
feels unfair to people already working with the repo. That said,
a possible future is to move away from our private monorepo to
a public mixed-licence repo, which could have the same relationship
with grist-core as the monorepo has.
* Minimal differences between self-managed builds and one of our
existing builds, ideally hewing as close to grist-core as possible
for ease of documentation, debugging, and maintenance.
* Ideally, docker builds without copying files around (the new
`--build-context` functionality made that possible).
* Compatibility with monorepo build.
Expressing dependencies of the extra code in `ext` proved tricky to
do in a clean way. Yarn/npm fought me every step of the way - everything
related to optional dependencies was unsatisfactory in some respect.
Yarn2 is flexible but smells like it might be overreach. In the end,
organizing to install non-core dependencies one directory up from the
main build was a good simple trick that saved my bacon.
This diff gets us to the point of building `grist-ee` images conveniently,
but there isn't a public repo people can go look at to see its source. This
could be generated by taking `grist-core`, adding the `ext` directory
to it, and pushing to a distinct repository. I'm not in a hurry to do that,
since a PR to that repo would be hard to sync with our monorepo and
`grist-core`. Also, we don't have any licensing text ready for the `ext`
directory. So leaving that for future work.
Test Plan: manual
Reviewers: georgegevoian, alexmojaki
Reviewed By: georgegevoian, alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3415
It looks like making gvisor sandboxing the default in our docker image is causing people trouble, so this backs off from that change. We retain gvisor's runsc executable in the image so that turning on sandboxing is just an environment variable setting away.
Lack of sandboxing is not good for users opening untrusted documents, so it would be good to be aggressive about turning it on, or communicating about it, so there's follow-up work needed. In the meantime I've updated the documentation about it somewhat.
See https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/177
Summary:
This adds support for gvisor sandboxing in core. When Grist is run outside of a container, regular gvisor can be used (if on linux), and will run in rootless mode. When Grist is run inside a container, docker's default policy is insufficient for running gvisor, so a fork of gvisor is used that has less defence-in-depth but can run without privileges.
Sandboxing is automatically turned on in the Grist core container. It is not turned on automatically when built from source, since it is operating-system dependent.
This diff may break a complex method of testing Grist with gvisor on macs that I may have been the only person using. If anyone complains I'll find time on a mac to fix it :)
This diff includes a small "easter egg" to force document loads, primarily intended for developer use.
Test Plan: existing tests pass; checked that core and saas docker builds function
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3333
Summary:
Unless redis is configured, Grist will store information in a
grist-sessions.db file. For grist-core run using docker, this
file is not by default in the directory the documentation suggests
the user persist, and so is lost when Grist is updated. This
is an unexpected annoyance for users, and the configuration fix
is awkward to explain, so this diff changes the default.
Test Plan:
rebuilt image manually and verified it operated as
expected
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3217
Summary:
This updates the grist-core README to list specific features of Grist,
to make it easier for a casual visitor to get a sense of its scope. Adds links
to some new resources (reviews, templates, grist v airtable post) that could
also help. Adds python3 to docker image so that templates work without fuss.
Test Plan: existing tests should pass
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: dsagal, anaisconce
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3204
Summary:
* Tie build and run-time docker base images to a consistent version (buster)
* Extend the test login system activated by GRIST_TEST_LOGIN to ease porting tests that currently rely on cognito (many)
* Make org resets work in absence of billing endpoints
* When in-memory session caches are used, add missing invalidation steps
* Pass org information through sign-ups/sign-ins more carefully
* For CORS, explicitly trust GRIST_HOST origin when set
* Move some fixtures and tests to core, focussing on tests that cover existing failures or are in the set of tests run on deployments
* Retain regular `test` target to run the test suite directly, without docker
* Add a `test:smoke` target to run a single simple test without `GRIST_TEST_LOGIN` activated
* Add a `test:docker` target to run the tests against a grist-core docker image - since tests rely on certain fixture teams/docs, added `TEST_SUPPORT_API_KEY` and `TEST_ADD_SAMPLES` flags to ease porting
The tests ported were `nbrowser` tests: `ActionLog.ts` (the first test I tend to port to anything, out of habit), `Fork.ts` (exercises a lot of doc creation paths), `HomeIntro.ts` (a lot of DocMenu exercise), and `DuplicateDocument.ts` (covers a feature known to be failing prior to this diff, the CORS tweak resolves it).
Test Plan: Manually tested via `buildtools/build_core.sh`. In follow up, I want to add running the `test:docker` target in grist-core's workflows. In jenkins, only the smoke test is run. There'd be an argument for running all tests, but they include particularly slow tests, and are duplicates of tests already run (in different configuration admittedly), so I'd like to try first just using them in grist-core to gate updates to any packaged version of Grist (the docker image currently).
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3176
Summary:
* Base docker image no longer contained a `python` binary.
Made a small fix for this, with proper python3 packaging
in the works separately.
* Added missing plugins directory for importing csv+xlsx.
* Tweaked environment variables to avoid needing to hard-code
addresses, which was burdensome for single-server hosts.
Test Plan:
Tested manually. It would be good to move over some
fraction of our tests to catch packaging glitches, or to run
our standard deployment tests on a deployment derived from
grist-core.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Subscribers: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3159
Summary: As practice for upgrading node in regular grist images, this upgrades the grist-core image to v14.
Test Plan: manual
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2807
Summary:
* adds a smoke test to grist-core
* fixes a problem with highlight.js failing to load correctly
* skips survey for default user
* freshens docker build
Utility files in test/nbrowser are moved to core/test/nbrowser, so that gristUtils are available there. This increased the apparent size of the diff as "./" import paths needed replacing with "test/nbrowser/" paths. The utility files are untouched, except for the code to start a server - it now has a small grist-core specific conditional in it.
Test Plan: adds test
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2768
Summary:
This adds a two-stage Dockerfile for grist-core. The first stage builds
Grist, and the second collects all files needed to run Grist.
The resulting image is about 600 MB which is quite a bit bigger
than it needs to be, but seems fine for now when the first goal is
to establish that people can open and edit Grist files on their
own infrastructure.
The image uses stock python rather than our sandboxed python for now.
Test Plan: manual
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2637
