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# Dokku Docker Compose Plugin Architecture
## Overview
This document describes the architecture of the Dokku Docker Compose plugin, which enables importing Docker Compose files into Dokku while maintaining compatibility with existing Dokku plugins and features.
## High-Level Architecture
```mermaid
graph TD
A[Docker Compose File] --> B[Parser]
B --> C[Service Graph]
C --> D[Transformer]
D --> E[Dokku Resources]
E --> F[Dokku Core]
G[Plugins] --> F
H[CLI] --> B
H --> D
H --> F
```
## Core Components
### 1. Parser
- **Responsibility**: Parse and validate Docker Compose files
- **Input**: `docker-compose.yml` (v2/v3)
- **Output**: Normalized service definitions
- **Features**:
- YAML parsing with schema validation
- Environment variable interpolation
- Extension point for custom validators
### 2. Service Graph
- **Responsibility**: Model service dependencies and relationships
- **Components**:
- Dependency resolver
- Cycle detection
- Topological sorter
- **Features**:
- Builds directed acyclic graph (DAG) of services
- Determines execution order
- Identifies independent services for parallel processing
### 3. Transformer
- **Responsibility**: Convert Docker Compose concepts to Dokku resources
- **Components**:
- Resource mappers (networks, volumes, etc.)
- Plugin detector
- Environment variable processor
- **Features**:
- Handles Docker-specific configurations
- Integrates with Dokku plugins
- Manages resource naming and references
### 4. Executor
- **Responsibility**: Coordinate the creation/update of Dokku resources
- **Components**:
- Operation planner
- Dependency manager
- Rollback handler
- **Features**:
- Transactional updates
- Parallel execution where possible
- Automatic rollback on failure
## Data Flow
1. **Initialization**:
- Load and parse `docker-compose.yml`
- Resolve environment variables
- Validate against schema
2. **Analysis**:
- Build service dependency graph
- Detect plugin integrations
- Plan operations
3. **Execution**:
- Create/update resources in dependency order
- Handle plugin integrations
- Configure networking and storage
4. **Verification**:
- Run health checks
- Verify service availability
- Perform post-deployment tasks
## Key Design Decisions
### 1. Plugin Integration
- **Approach**: Use Dokku's plugin system for service management
- **Rationale**: Leverage existing, well-tested implementations
- **Implementation**:
- Detect compatible plugins based on image names
- Map Docker Compose configurations to plugin commands
- Fall back to container-based deployment when no plugin is available
### 2. State Management
- **Approach**: Store minimal state in Dokku's configuration
- **Rationale**: Ensure consistency and enable recovery
- **Implementation**:
- Store original compose file checksum
- Track resource mappings
- Maintain version history
### 3. Error Handling
- **Approach**: Fail fast with clear error messages
- **Rationale**: Prevent partial or inconsistent states
- **Implementation**:
- Input validation
- Pre-flight checks
- Transactional updates with rollback
## Integration Points
### Dokku Core
- App management
- Network configuration
- Volume management
- Process management
### External Systems
- Docker Registry (for image pulls)
- Docker Daemon (for container operations)
- System Package Manager (for plugin installation)
## Security Considerations
1. **Input Validation**:
- Sanitize all inputs
- Validate against schema
- Restrict file system access
2. **Secret Management**:
- Handle environment variables securely
- Support Dokku's secret management
- Avoid logging sensitive data
3. **Access Control**:
- Respect file permissions
- Run with least privilege
- Validate user permissions
## Performance Considerations
1. **Parallel Processing**:
- Process independent services concurrently
- Limit concurrency to prevent resource exhaustion
2. **Caching**:
- Cache parsed compose files
- Store intermediate build artifacts
3. **Optimizations**:
- Lazy loading of resources
- Incremental updates
- Batch operations where possible
## Monitoring and Observability
1. **Logging**:
- Structured logging
- Different log levels
- Operation context
2. **Metrics**:
- Operation duration
- Resource usage
- Success/failure rates
3. **Tracing**:
- Request tracing
- Dependency tracking
- Performance analysis
## Future Extensions
1. **Plugin System**:
- Custom transformers
- Additional validators
- Post-processing hooks
2. **Export Functionality**:
- Generate compose files from existing Dokku apps
- Support for different output formats
3. **Advanced Features**:
- Blue/green deployments
- Canary releases
- A/B testing support