Bitnami Odoo Addons over Init Container not work

10/1/2021

I use the Helm Chart from Bitnami https://bitnami.com/stack/odoo/helm for the Odoo installation. The chart works without problems. But what I do not manage is that I can download addons using git and an init container. I have tried the following.

My init Container

initContainers:
  - name: git-hr-attendance
    image: bitnami/odoo
    command: ["/bin/sh","-c"
    args: ['apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install git && git clone https://github.com/OCA/hr-attendance /bitnami/odoo']
    volumeMounts:
      - name: odoo-data
        mountPath: /bitnami/odoo
        #subPath: addons

Output Logs

fatal: destination path '/bitnami/odoo' already exists and is not an empty directory.

What I also tried is to load the git repo into the /tmp folder but this has another effect the data is not copied from the /tmp folder to the /bitnami/odoo/addons folder. But the folder /bitnami/odoo will be displayed in /tmp.

After that I adjusted the init container.

init container

initContainers:
  - name: git-hr-attendance
    image: bitnami/odoo
    command: ["/bin/sh","-c"
    args: ['apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install git && git clone https://github.com/OCA/hr-attendance /bitnami/odoo/addons']
    volumeMounts:
      - name: odoo-data
        mountPath: /bitnami/odoo
        subPath: addons

Output Logs

Cloning into '/bitnami/odoo/addons'...

The data is now copied but after that the config file is no longer available.

odoo 11:45:27.24 

odoo 11:45:27.24 Welcome to the Bitnami odoo container

odoo 11:45:27.24 Subscribe to project updates by watching https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-odoo

odoo 11:45:27.24 Submit issues and feature requests at https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-odoo/issues

odoo 11:45:27.24 

odoo 11:45:27.26 INFO  ==> Validating settings in POSTGRESQL_CLIENT_* env vars

odoo 11:45:27.32 INFO  ==> Restoring persisted Odoo installation

odoo 11:45:27.36 INFO  ==> Trying to connect to the database server

grep: /opt/bitnami/odoo/conf/odoo.conf: No such file or directory

Does anyone have an idea or experience with Odoo what to do about this. So that I can download my addons via git per init container.

-- Gallifrey
bitnami
kubernetes
kubernetes-helm
odoo-14

1 Answer

10/6/2021

The problem you are seeing is related to the way the Odoo image verifies if it should initialize the app or instead restore an old installation at the setup stage. If it finds that the /bitnami/odoo/ directory is not empty it will do the latter (link), and so the

grep: /opt/bitnami/odoo/conf/odoo.conf: No such file or directory

is displayed because it tries to find files that should have being created from a previous installation (there are symlinks between some folders in /opt/bitnami/odoo and /bitnami/odoo).

You can modify the image at this point to add your custom logic.

-- pgalego
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