Native installation inside a Proxmox LXC container / bare metal linux (debian trixie)

[MickLesk]

Hi,

we are currently looking into adding GoDoxy as an LXC installation script for the Proxmox VE Community Scripts project:

community-scripts/ProxmoxVED#1700
Installer-Source: https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/blob/main/install/deferred/godoxy-install.sh

The idea would be to install GoDoxy directly inside a Debian LXC as a native binary with systemd, without running Docker inside the container.

From the documentation, Docker Compose seems to be the main installation method. Since GoDoxy itself is written in Go, we wanted to ask:

• Is a native installation without Docker officially supported?
• Can the Docker provider be disabled completely?
• Would the WebUI, route files, certificates and Proxmox integration still work?
• Are there any required runtime dependencies?
• Are standalone binaries for amd64 and arm64 available or planned?
• What would be the recommended directories and systemd setup?

The LXC would have its own IP address and GoDoxy would bind directly to ports 80 and 443.

Is this a reasonable deployment method, or is GoDoxy mainly intended to run through Docker or Podman?

[yusing]

Thanks for paying attention on GoDoxy! I love community-scripts project so much! Excited to have my project on it!

Is a native installation without Docker officially supported?

Not officially supported but doable, I did this before for development.

Can the Docker provider be disabled completely?

Absolutely! You can run GoDoxy with just route files.

Would the WebUI, route files, certificates and Proxmox integration still work

WebUI: need to confirm but I think yes. I haven't tried native installation after switching embedded WebUI
route files: yes
certificates: yes
Proxmox integration: yes

Are there any required runtime dependencies?

None. It's built with CGO_ENABLED=0.

Are standalone binaries for amd64 and arm64 available or planned?

No standalone at the moment but I will add CI workflow later to build these.

What would be the recommended directories and systemd setup

I think it will be in /opt/godoxy with the similar structure to a manual setup.

/opt/godoxy:

├── godoxy
├── certs
│   ├── cert.crt
│   └── priv.key
├── config
│   ├── config.yml
│   ├── middlewares
│   │   ├── middleware1.yml
│   │   ├── middleware2.yml
│   ├── provider1.yml
│   └── provider2.yml
├── data
│   ├── metrics # metrics data
│   │   ├── uptime.json
│   │   └── system_info.json

/etc:

├── godoxy.env

For systemd service it will be similar to https://github.com/yusing/godoxy/blob/main/scripts/install-agent.sh#L340

Is this a reasonable deployment method?

Yes, let me figure out a working solution and submit a PR to VED. TYVM!

[yusing]

@MickLesk community-scripts/ProxmoxVED#2085