Nginx Reverse Proxy Manager on Raspberry Pi 4 doesn't automatically start up after reboot

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I set up the Nginx Reverse Proxy Manager by Jamie Curnow on my Raspberry Pi using docker and docker-compose.

This is the yml stack file:

---
version: '3'
services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    ports:
      - '80:80' #HTTP Traffic
      - '81:81' #Dashboard Port
      - '443:443' #HTTPS Traffic
    volumes:
      - ./config.json:/app/config/production.json
      - ./data:/data
      - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
  db:
    image: 'jc21/mariadb-aria:10.4'
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'npm'
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'npm'
      MYSQL_USER: 'npm'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'npm'
    volumes:
      - ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql

(I use different passwords)

Now, I already once composed it using sudo docker-compose up -d, however, whenever I sudo reboot my Raspberry Pi, it doesn't start as a service.

This is my Raspberry Pi Kernel, btw:

Linux Pi-Server 5.10.17-v7l+ #1403 SMP Mon Feb 22 11:33:35 GMT 2021 armv7l GNU/L

And this is my OS version:

Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description:    Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:        10
Codename:       buster

The interesting part is that whenever I try to recompose it using sudo docker-compose up -d again, I get the following output:

Starting nginx_db_1  ... done
Starting nginx_app_1 ... done

Afterwards, both Nginx and its GUI by Mr. Curnow work.

Is there a more fancy way other than running this docker-compose on startup every time?

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2 Answers

Host -- docker service level

Update: the initial answer works within docker itself. If you want docker itself to also start on boot, then that's a different story. You should be able to do that with:

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl enable containerd.service

VM -- docker container level (nginx)

You can definitely start nginx service on boot.

The commands are self-explanatory -- enable, disable, and check status of running nginx on boot:

sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl disable nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx

Resources:

  1. Launch Nginx on startup.
  2. systemd examples

If this is not available at your disposal, let me know and I'll try to find other ways and update my answer.

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You can also edit the YML file to say "restart: always" in the "services:"

for example like this:

version: '3'

services:
  postgresql:
    image: postgres:9.6.6
    ports:
      - 9932:5432
    expose:
      - "5432"
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pass
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

  myapp:
    image: myapp
    links:
      - postgresql
    depends_on:
      - "postgresql"
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"

I would also recommend adding your specific docker-compose as a service using this service directory:

/etc/systemd/system/

In here simply create the file using nano or vim. The filename is not important, however, it needs to be a ".service" file, so I recommend the name "docker-compose-app.service"

[Unit]
Description=Docker Compose Application Service
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/wherever/your/docker-compose/file/is
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/docker-compose up
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/docker-compose down
TimeoutStartSec=0
Restart=on-failure
StartLimitIntervalSec=60
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

(WorkingDirectory = wherever your docker-compose file is, please change!)

All you then need to do is:

systemctl enable docker-compose-app

(If you've given it a different file name, use that name here)

And just to be sure:

sudo systemctl enable docker

This is a StackOverflow question which might help you answer your problem

How the restart: always policy works.

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