Locally socket activated and containerised Riot service

This post details how to start a container when a port is accessed.

Specifically, we will start an instance of the Riot IM chat service. This will let you run a version of it locally, instead of hosting it on the public internet. e.g. https://riot.im/

Create the container. Note the name and port forwarding is specified here:

podman run -d --name local_riot -p 8081:80 vectorim/riot-web

~/.config/systemd.user/local-riot.socket

[Unit]
Description=RIOT Local Socket

[Socket]
ListenStream=127.0.0.1:8081
NoDelay=true
FreeBind=true

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

~/.config/systemd.user/local-riot.service

[Unit]
Description=RIOT Local Service

[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start -a local_riot
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 10 local_riot

Reload systemd, and enable, then start the socket.

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable local-riot.socket
systemctl --user start local-riot.socket

So now you can go to http://127.0.0.1:8081 and use riot.

17 Jun 2020 | Tags ( matrix linux systemd )