The minimal set of environment variables to set are:
P4PPORT: the port the proxy should listen on. If you want to host over an SSL connection, this should be prepended with ssl:. Examples: localhost:1666, ssl:localhost:1666, ssl::1666
P4PTARGET: the Helix Perforce server target the proxy should attached to. If the string begins with ssl:, the remote certificate will automatically be added to the p4trust file, allowing ssl access. Examples: myp4.example.com:2666, ssl:myp4.example.com:2666
Ultimately, this container could run without any bound volumes and be purely ephemeral. Traditionally, the intended deployment means keeping the cache and it's database between launches. As such, the following Volume should bind to a persistant volume:
/p4/cache: P4 Proxy cache location, example -v /path/to/local/cache/dir:/p4/cache *** Security risk, raw data files will be placed in this location, make sure this is either an encrypted and/or secured data location. ***
/p4/logs: Output logs from the Proxy Service. A new log will be placed in this location every time the service starts. * Log rotation to be implimented
/p4/config: The location of .p4trust and .p4tickets (in the case of precaching).
/p4/ssl: Location of certificate.txt and privatekey.txt. If these files do not exist in this location at boot and ssl: has been prepended to the P4PPORT variable, a self-signed certificate will be generated and stored here.
The package.json file contains scripts to build and run the docker image during dev.
yarn build: Build the container image, tagged as the package.json name attribute, with the default of p4proxy-docker, and the package.json version number. Example: p4proxy-docker:1.0.0
yarn start: Run the built container image.
yarn dev: Run the built container and jump into a /bin/bash shell session
You can build and run or debug the container with the combined scripts, yarn build:start and yarn build:dev
To build a specific version of P4P (the 2020.1 release has only been tested so far), you can run yarn build --build-arg P4P_VER=r19.2
P4USER: Perforce user to be used for pre-caching depots * To be implimented
P4PFSIZE: Minimum file size eligable for caching. Helpful for only keeping large files in cache. Doc reference. Default P4PFSIZE=0, example: P4PFSIZE=1073741824, files of 10GiB or larger
P4DEBUG: Perforce Proxy Debug Log level. Default P4DEBUG=0, example: P4DEBUG=9
P4PCOMPRESS: Default: P4PCOMPRESS=TRUE, example P4PCOMPRESS=FALSE
Default Environment variables:
ARG P4P_VER=r20.1
ENV P4P_VER=${P4P_VER}
P4USER=p4proxy
P4PPORT=localhost:1666
P4PTARGET=localhost:1666
P4PFSIZE=0
P4DEBUG=0
P4PCOMPRESS=TRUE