Simplified self-hosted cozy cloud installation

⚠️ Unofficial, not affiliated with cozy.io

Simplified procedure to run a personal cozy cloud with docker.

What is included :

• CozyCloud installation
• SSL certificates management with Let's Encrypt

What is (not yet) included :

[ ] Konnector management [ ] Email configuration [ ] Backups management

Prequisite

• A domain name
• A server with docker installed (linux arm or x86, MacOS) and accessible from Internet

Domain configuration

Choose a cozy subdomain for you instance like cozy.mydomain.tld. Declare on your domain :

• a A entry with the ip of your server to cozy.mydomain.tld
• a CNAME entry *.cozy.mydomain.tld to cozy.mydomain.tld

Cozy installation and configuration

• Clone the easy-cozy project

git clone https://github.com/vsellier/easy-cozy.git

• On the root directory of the project, create a .env file. You can use the env-template file as reference.

⚠️ It's recommended to create the data directories in a neutral location like /srv or /var/lib. If they are created in a /home/<user> directory for example, there is a good chance you will face to permission issues due to the home dir permission restrictions.

DATABASE_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/cozy/db
STORAGE_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/cozy/storage
COZY_TLD=cozy.mydomain.tld
EMAIL=bofh@mydomain.tld
ACME_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/acme

• create the data directories and ensure they have the right permissions

# change by the values you put on your .env file
# mkdir -p /var/lib/cozy/db /var/lib/cozy/storage
# sudo chown 1000 /var/lib/cozy /var/lib/cozy/db /var/lib/cozy/storage

• Start the server

On a linux x86 server :

# sudo docker-compose up -d

On a Linux arm / Raspberry server :

# sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-arm.yml up -d

• Check the containers and the logs

# sudo docker-compose ps
# sudo docker-compose logs -f

If everything is ok, you should have 3 running containers :

$ sudo docker-compose ps
        Name                      Command               State                                 Ports
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
easycozy_cozy_1    /entrypoint.sh                   Up      127.0.0.1:6060->6060/tcp
easycozy_db_1      /docker-entrypoint.sh /opt ...   Up      4369/tcp, 5984/tcp, 9100/tcp
easycozy_front_1   /traefik --acme.email=cozy ...   Up      0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 127.0.0.1:8080->8080/tcp

• Initialize the databases

From the root directory of the project :

# sudo ./init.sh

You can access your cozy installation in a browser via the url https://cozy.mydomain.tld. The first connection can take a long time (especially if you are using a RaspberryPi as a server) due to the ssl certificate generation. Be patient.

Initialize your personal instance(s)

We will now create a personal instance myuser.cozy.mydomain.tld :

# sudo ./create-instance.sh myuser

Open in a browser the url displayed at the end of the script output to finalize the instance configuration.

👍 Congratulations you have now your own cozy cloud.

Install applications

Drive and Photo are installed by default by the create-instance.sh script. Other applications like banks or contacts are also available.

You can go to the store application (store.yourinstance.youdomain.tld) to manage you applications. To manually install an application, you can run the application.sh script :

sudo ./application.sh <instance name> <application>