Netbox-branching getting to work?

[basn]

anyone able to get it to work?
i cant get it to build the updated container.

Tried coping in the settings but it keeps not working.´

[teixemf]

I am on the same boat as you are.
It is not possible to build a new image with the plugin netbox-branching.

The issue is on the run of manage.py collectstatic and the the 2nd line of the python file local_settings.py that is said on the plugin instructions to include.
The manage.py collectstatic doesn't this import here from .configuration import DATABASE causing the error:
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

I tried to buid the image without the running manage.py collectstatic and I try to execute the command directly on the running netbox container but that way I get permission denied errors:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/netbox/netbox/static/debug_toolbar'

Maybe an Issue should be opened.

[tobiasge]

I just tried building an images with the plugin and it worked with these files:

Dockerfile/Containerfile

FROM quay.io/netboxcommunity/netbox:v4.1

COPY plugins.py /etc/netbox/config/plugins.py
COPY local_settings.py /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/local_settings.py
RUN /opt/netbox/venv/bin/pip install netboxlabs-netbox-branching
RUN SECRET_KEY="dummyKeyWithMinimumLength-------------------------" /opt/netbox/venv/bin/python /opt/netbox/netbox/manage.py collectstatic --no-input

plugins.py

PLUGINS = [
    'netbox_branching',
]

local_settings.py

from netbox_branching.utilities import DynamicSchemaDict
from .configuration import DATABASE

# Wrap DATABASES with DynamicSchemaDict for dynamic schema support
DATABASES = DynamicSchemaDict({
    'default': DATABASE,
})

# Employ our custom database router
DATABASE_ROUTERS = [
    'netbox_branching.database.BranchAwareRouter',
]

[teixemf]

I got it working now.

I am not declaring my plugins at ./configuration/plugins.pt but in a customized file located at on another directory.
I had the path to my customized file correctly added to the Dockerfile.
However, I was not adding that path as a volume to docker-compose.override.yml and I realized the volumes section at docker-compose.yml was overriding the correct plugings.py file added during the image build.

Thanks @tobiasge and sorry. It was my bad after all.

[basn]

@teixemf so you got it to work now? i get other issues as soon as i add the things in the build... ill guess some of them my bad still but cant figure it out yet :)

[basn]

Just because i said it i got it to work to... (moved local_settings from configuration/)

[mrlnbllmnn]

I had my local_settings.py in the configuration folder which prevented the netbox container from starting.

  File "/etc/netbox/config/local_settings.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .configuration import DATABASE
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

After moving the local_settings.py for branching in the parent directory and adjusting my Dockerfile-Plugins for the next build process, netbox started without issues.

[teixemf]

@mrlnbllmnn That was happening because of

netbox-docker/docker-compose.yml

Line 16 in 5add31e

- ./configuration:/etc/netbox/config:z,ro

That overrides the content of the config directory when you run the container.

Overall, the confusion rises because the plugin documentation says to had the file to where configuration.py is.
https://github.com/netboxlabs/netbox-branching/blob/develop/docs/index.md#4-configuration
But to make it work with netbox-docker you need to add it to another location.

COPY local_settings.py /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/local_settings.py

Honestly I don't understand yet how
/opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/
And
/etc/netbox/config/
Play together in netbox-docker.