If you need to build a community forum, try phpBB. First released in 2000, phpBB is a bulletin board solution that allows you to create forums and subforums. phpBB supports the notion of users and groups, file attachments, full-text search, notifications and more. Hundreds of modifications are available including themes, communications add-ons, spam management and more.

Based on the Bitnami phpBB image for docker, this Chart bootstraps a phpBB deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm.

Dependencies

The phpBB Chart requires the Bitnami MariaDB Chart for setting up a database backend.

Please refer to the README of the Bitnami MariaDB Chart for deployment instructions.

Persistence

You may skip this section if your only interested in testing the phpBB Chart and have not yet made the decision to use it for your production workloads.

For persistence of the phpBB configuration and user file uploads, mount a storage volume at the /bitnami/phpbb path of the phpBB pod.

By default the phpBB Chart mounts an emptyDir volume.

Configuration

To edit the default phpBB configuration, run

$ helmc edit phpbb

Here you can update the phpBB admin username, password and email address in tpl/values.toml. When not specified, the default values are used.

Refer to the Environment variables section of the Bitnami phpBB image for the default values.

The values of phpbbUser and phpbbPassword are the login credentials when you access the phpBB instance.

Finally, generate the chart to apply your changes to the configuration.

$ helmc generate --force php

Access your phpBB application

You should now be able to access the application using the external IP configured for the phpBB service.

Note:

On GKE, the service will automatically configure a firewall rule so that the phpBB instance is accessible from the internet, for which you will be charged additionally.

On other cloud platforms you may have to setup a firewall rule manually. Please refer your cloud providers documentation.

Get the external IP address of your phpBB instance using:

$ kubectl get services phpbb
NAME      CLUSTER_IP      EXTERNAL_IP       PORT(S)         SELECTOR      AGE
phpbb    10.63.246.116   146.148.20.117    80/TCP,443/TCP  app=phpbb    15m

Access your phpBB deployment using the IP address listed under the EXTERNAL_IP column.

The default credentials are:

Username: user
Password: bitnami

Cleanup

To delete the phpBB deployment completely:

$ helmc uninstall -n default phpbb

Additionally you may want to Cleanup the MariaDB Chart