Offen is a simple, open-source analytics software that enables the collection and processing of user data in a privacy-compliant way. It provides complete transparency to users, and as such, helps businesses and organizations stay GDPR-compliant. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Offen on Debian Latest.
Docker is a containerization platform that allows for packaging applications into containers. Docker Compose is a tool used to define and run multi-container Docker applications. We'll begin the installation process by installing these tools.
To do this, first, update the package index:
sudo apt update
Now, install Docker from the official Docker repository:
sudo apt-get install docker.io
Once Docker is installed, add your user to the Docker group so that you can run Docker without using sudo:
sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}
su - ${USER}
Next, install Docker Compose:
sudo apt-get install docker-compose
Verify the installation by checking the version numbers of both Docker and Docker Compose:
docker --version
docker-compose --version
To install Offen, we'll first create a new directory for it and change our current directory to the newly created one:
mkdir offen
cd offen
Now, we'll create a new docker-compose.yml file:
nano docker-compose.yml
Add the following code to the file:
version: "3"
services:
offen:
image: offen/offen
ports:
- "3000:3000"
volumes:
- ./offen:/var/lib/offen
environment:
OFFEN_SECRET: insert-a-random-secret-here
DATABASE_URL: postgres://offen:[insert-password-here]@db:5432/offen?sslmode=disable
depends_on:
- db
db:
image: postgres:12
volumes:
- ./data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: offen
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: insert-a-random-password-here
PGDATA: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
Save and close the file.
The code above specifies that we want to run the offen image on port 3000. The environment variables are set to use a PostgreSQL database and specify the credentials needed to connect to the database.
Now, we'll create a new directory to store data files:
mkdir data
To start Offen, run the following command:
sudo docker-compose up -d
This will pull and create the required Docker images, run the containers in detached mode, and leave them running in the background.
To verify that Offen is installed correctly, navigate to your server's public IP address, and add :3000 to the end of the address:
http://your_server_ip:3000
If everything was set up correctly, you should now see Offen running, and you can begin collecting data in a privacy-compliant way.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Offen on Debian Latest with Docker and Docker Compose. Offen is a robust analytics platform that is also privacy-compliant, making it perfect for organizations that need to comply with the GDPR.
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