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Re: Odoo -- Community v Enterprise Questions
> I'm a little surprised by this
statement. I prototyped Enterprise a few times between v12 and
v15
I learned docker last year over a period of about six months, so
I'm not an expert - however I do have a fair degree of
experience with Linux sysadmin spanning a decade or more, so I'm
not a novice either. For work related reasons I ended up testing
something like twenty different dockerized apps over this
period, and Odoo was one of the later ones, so I was getting
familiar by that time.
Overall, I love the experience of dealing with containerized
apps, compared to the old school style of installing them
directly. However, there were two apps that stood out as being
as struggle to install. One was Outline wiki (a great app once
installed, however). The other was Odoo, both community and
enterprise, but especially enterprise.
The reason for it being complicated is to do with database
setup. I haven't found any way to have a docker install creates
no database, so you can open the page and create/restore a
database as described in the docs for a new installation.
Instead, what I get with every initial container, both writing
my own compose scripts and following templates that I can find
online, is loads of server errors (I forget exactly what errors
now, but it was something to do with "database incorrectly
initialized"). The only way around this that I have found is to
add a command:
# Don't leave this line in for production!!
# command: --db_host=${DB_HOST} --database ${DB_NAME} --db_user ${POSTGRES_USER} --db_password ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} -i base
Then on the first install I uncomment that, it creates a blank
database and that allows me to access web/database/manage
where I can finally restore the real database. Then I have to
remember to uncomment the line and re-up the container
(otherwise it will overwrite the database every time).
As for enterprise, the only description in the docs for how to
install is this:
> Tip: For the Enterprise edition, you must add the path
to the enterprise addons to the addons-path argument. Note
that it must come before the other paths in addons-path for
addons to be loaded correctly.
https://www.odoo.com/documentation/16.0/administration/install/install.html
When you download the enterprise files, you'll see that they
have a folder structure similar to the entire Odoo install,
including an addons folder. So, as per the tip, I added that enterprise/addons
folder to the addons-path.
This is incorrect. Instead, you need to add the *entire*
enterprise folder structure as an addons folder, which means
there's an addons folder with another addons folder inside it.
I think it's fair to call this confusing and poorly documented,
although it's far from the worst thing I've encountered in my
dev career, or even in the Odoo docs.
- Lewy
P.S: If anyone can share a docker-compose template for community
edition that does allow me to immediately access web/database/manage,
I would appreciate it :)
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:57 PM Dev <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
In terms of usage, installing the Enterprise version from source using Docker is complicated and poorly documented.
I'm a little surprised by this statement. I prototyped Enterprise a few times between v12 and v15 and seem to recall it being no more than adding an /mnt/enterprise-addons volume on top of the standard odoo:12-15 docker container. We do the exact same type of mounting for our own custom development and also for OCA modules. We ultimately decided not to go with it due to cost and legal arbitration being in Europe, but I still press my face up against the glass and stare longingly at the Spreadsheets module. ;-)_______________________________________________
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by dev - 12:10 - 13 Feb 2023
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Odoo -- Community v Enterprise Questions
Greetings, I'm new to the Odoo community. I ran across Odoo while looking for a Point of Sale for my girlfriend's business (brick and mortar), but alas, we have been using GoHighLevel which has a lot of overlap with Odoo. As a result, I was looking at the offerings from Odoo with respect to the community edition and the enterprise editions. But from what I can tell, enterprise subscriptions must pay per user and Odoo.sh must host the deployment. I wear a number of hats at a number of different companies, such as the requirement for my girlfriend's business below, a not for profit corporation, which could benefit greatly from efforts in Odoo, as well as my full time job, which could use Odoo as a cloud services provider for internal accounting and forecasting purposes. All in all, I've been in the Internet industry for a long time and have my own cabinet in a well connected data center with plenty of compute and storage capabilities, so naturally, I would like to self host. I spent a few hours trying to find Odoo resources, which is how I found my way here. I also looked through the App directory, but I was having a hard time reconciling the App directory with the offerings included within the enterprise license. Does anybody have a pointer to a URL, or documents, which go into any level of detail on how to create the enterprise experience in a self-hosted environment? As a side note, I would like to whitelabel the URL for my girlfriend's business. Further, I would want to nest multiple client instances within a deployment (for her clients' environments) and then be able to white label a specific clients environment, but that's a longer term vision. Any help that could be provided to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I see a lot of personal use cases for Odoo, but am struggling to see where the current lines have been drawn between enterprise and community. Thank you in advance, Charles
by cgucker - 06:31 - 29 Jan 2023-
Re: Odoo -- Community v Enterprise Questions
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 6:12 PM Dev <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:The reason for it being complicated is to do with database setup. I haven't found any way to have a docker install creates no database, so you can open the page and create/restore a database as described in the docs for a new installation.
Ah, that makes sense. For local containers, we don't restore a database, so no problem. In production, I never wanted /web/database/manage to show up for even a second, so I have Terraform get the database into shape prior to running Odoo for the first time.
by Adam Heinz - 02:20 - 13 Feb 2023 -
Re: Odoo -- Community v Enterprise Questions
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:57 PM Dev <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
In terms of usage, installing the Enterprise version from source using Docker is complicated and poorly documented.
I'm a little surprised by this statement. I prototyped Enterprise a few times between v12 and v15 and seem to recall it being no more than adding an /mnt/enterprise-addons volume on top of the standard odoo:12-15 docker container. We do the exact same type of mounting for our own custom development and also for OCA modules. We ultimately decided not to go with it due to cost and legal arbitration being in Europe, but I still press my face up against the glass and stare longingly at the Spreadsheets module. ;-)
by Adam Heinz - 03:31 - 8 Feb 2023
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