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Re: Odoo -- Community v Enterprise Questions

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- 13/02/2023 00:06:21

> 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 08-Feb-23 21:32, Adam Heinz wrote:
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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