A basic docker container that accepts file upload using rsync.

You can run the container as you would any other docker container:

doas docker run -v ./demo:/storage -p 873:873 -it rsyncd

By default this will accept connections as the user deploy, with the password deploy as well.

But the container exposes following environment variables:

• RSYNC_USER, the username used by rsync for authentication
• RSYNC_PASS, the password used by rsync for authentication
• HOST_USER, used to set file permission of uploaded files. (Should match the UID of the host user)
• RSYNC_CONFIG, can be used to overwrite the path to the rsyncd.conf file. (You probably do not need to change this, but if you want to use a custom config, you'll have to change this. Keep in mind that changing this also means that you have to manage authentication yourself)
• BUCKET_NAME, can be used to change the rsync module name. Defaults to storage

If you prefer using docker compose, you might want to check out the docker-compose example, where we combine rsyncd with nginx to build a static file deployment server.

In case you are not happy with the prebuild images, you can manually build the container:

The easiest way is marking the Dockerfile as executable, and then running it

chmod +x Dockerfile
./Dockerfile

But if you do not feel confident with marking Dockerfiles as executable, you can also use docker build directly

docker build . -t docker-rsyncd