RADIUSdesk Docker Image

• You need to know the basics of Docker to be able to execute these instructions.
• The Docker image will create a split image (two containers)
  • One container will be the database with MariaDB
  • The other container is the web server with Nginx, PHP and FreeRADIUS.

• We assume that you are a user named system on a standard Ubuntu 26.04 installation.
• Set up the Docker repository:

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
 
# Add the repository to Apt sources:
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.sources <<EOF
Types: deb
URIs: https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu
Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo "${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}")
Components: stable
Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture)
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
EOF
 
sudo apt update

• Install the Docker packages:

sudo apt install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

• Manage Docker as a non-root user:

USER="system"
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

• After running this, you must log out and log back in (or run newgrp docker) for the group changes to take effect.

USER="system"
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release
 
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
 
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin
sudo apt-get -y install docker-compose
 
# Make docker run as non root
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock
 
# customize it with your own.
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/data
# make sure all future data in this folder can be created as non root
sudo chown  $USER:$USER /mnt/data

• You might have some existing docker containers and images that you first want to get rid of.
• Use these instructions with caution. It might destroy items you do not want to destroy.

#Only run these commands if you want to start with a full clean slate
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
docker network rm radiusdesk-bridge 

• Everything you need to create the RADIUSdesk Docker containers is provided with the RADIUSdesk (rdcore) repository.
• Check out the rdcore git repository.

cd ~
sudo git clone https://github.com/RADIUSdesk/rdcore.git

• Check out the rd_cake5 git repository.

cd ~
sudo git clone https://github.com/RADIUSdesk/rd_cake5.git

• Mount the rdcore top directory to the rdcore/docker/rdcore directory

cd rdcore/docker
sudo mkdir rdcore
sudo mount --bind ../../rdcore ./rdcore

• Mount the rd_cake5 directory to the rdcore/docker/rd_cake5 directory

sudo mkdir rd_cake5
sudo mount --bind ../../rd_cake5 ./rd_cake5

• Execute the script local_build.sh.

./local_build.sh

• There will be feedback on the screen as the two docker containers getting built.

{
        "auths": {},
        "credStore": "desktop",
        "currentContext": "default"
}

• After the process is complete, you can confirm that it is running

docker container ls
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                  COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS             PORTS                                                                                                        NAMES
98339a6a1b57   docker_radiusdesk      "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bi…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:1812-1813->1812-1813/udp, :::1812-1813->1812-1813/udp, 9000/tcp   radiusdesk
db3c6fa81d8b   bitnami/mariadb:10.5   "/opt/bitnami/script…"   2 hours ago         Up 2 hours         3306/t

• Open a browser and call up the IP address of the host on which the Docker containers are running.