Containers

You can run the bot as well as its dependencies as a series of containers using Docker or Podman. This can allow for a slightly easier setup if you're able to run one of those two container runtimes; however, the manual setup is still recommended if you want more control over the bot.

To start, install Docker or Podman on your system via the linked instructions. If using Podman, you'll also need to install podman-compose.

Once you've installed one of those, you should clone the esmBot repo:

cd ~
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/esmBot/esmBot
cd esmBot

Modify the .env file as described in step 6 of the manual setup. Make sure to change the DB option to this, however:

DB=postgresql://esmbot:verycoolpass100@postgres:5432/esmbot

You should then modify the config/servers.json file to change the IP addresses of the servers to match the containers. Example:

{
  "lava": [
    { "name": "localhost", "url": "lavalink:2333", "auth": "youshallnotpass" }
  ],
  "image": [
    { "server": "api", "auth": "verycoolpass100", "tls": false }
  ]
}

Finally, start the bot by running the following command (click to select your container runtime):

PodmanDocker

podman-compose up -d

docker compose up -d