Installation

There are two ways to run Harbormaster: In a Docker container, and on the host system. The Docker container method is preferable, as it’s much easier to get started with.

Docker container

You can run Harbormaster by using just Docker. You need to follow a few steps to set up your configuration and SSH:

  • Add your harbormaster.yml config (plus associated env/secrets files) to a git repository, and check it out somewhere on the host. That is your “config” directory.

  • If you’re going to be using SSH to pull the above repository, as well as any app repositories (mentioned in the above harbormaster.yml), copy the private SSH key into the config directory, and name it ssh_private_key.

  • Create a directory for Harbormaster to put all the apps’ volumes/data into. That is your Harbormaster working directory.

  • Run the Harbormaster image:

docker run -d \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    -v <the path to your config directory>:/config \
    -v <the path to your Harbormaster working directory>:/main \
    stavros/harbormaster

Harbormaster will now run every five minutes, pull your config repository (from whatever remote the repo has as its origin), and run the apps in the config.

If you want to run it immediately at some point, you can use the following command:

$ docker exec -i -t <container id> /usr/bin/run-harbormaster

Alternatively you can use stavros/harbormaster:webhook which ships with webhook to trigger updates. The image comes with an example configuration but you should mount a custom one to /hooks.json with proper rules for verifying the source.

System installation

To install it on your system, you can use pipx (recommended):

$ pipx install docker-harbormaster

Or pip (less recommended):

$ pip install docker-harbormaster

You also need to make sure you have git installed on your system.

You can also download a standalone executable for Linux from the pipelines page.