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Deploy Rocket.Chat using the Red Hat OpenShift platform and easily manage your application. Several templates for providing Rocket.Chat are hosted in this repository.

Installation on Container Development Kit (CDK)

  • Download and install CDK.

  • Download and install the OpenShift client tool.

  • Run OpenShift Vagrant machine.

  • Pull the Rocket.Chat Docker image from Docker hub and tag/push to the internal OpenShift registry using these commands:

docker pull registry.rocket.chat/rocketchat/rocket.chat
docker tag rocketchat/rocket.chat hub.openshift.rhel-cdk.10.1.2.2.xip.io/openshift/rocket-chat
docker push hub.openshift.rhel-cdk.10.1.2.2.xip.io/openshift/rocket-chat

  • Login in OpenShift and create a new project in OpenShift

oc login -u openshift-devel https://10.1.2.2:8443
oc new-project rocket-chat

  • Clone this repo and add the templates and imagestream to the Openshift namespace:

git clone https://github.com/rimolive/rocketchat-openshift
oc create -n openshift -f rocket-chat-is.json
oc create -n openshift -f rocket-chat-ephemeral.json

  • Create the rocket-chat app

oc new-app rocket-chat -p MONGODB_DATABASE=rocketchat,MONGODB_USER=rocketchat-admin,MONGODB_PASS=rocketchat

  • Rocket.Chat uses a domain check code to verify the validity of the e-mail address. To disable it, run these commands:

oc port-forward <mongodb_pod> 27017
mongo localhost:27017

Inside the Mongo client, run these commands:

use rocketchat
db.auth('rocketchat-admin','rocketchat')
db.rocketchat_settings.update({_id:'Accounts_UseDNSDomainCheck'},{$set:{value:false}})