Odoo on OpenShift

This git repository helps you get up and running quickly an Odoo installation on OpenShift.

Running on OpenShift

Create an account at https://www.openshift.com

Install the RHC client tools if you have not already done so:

sudo gem install rhc
rhc setup

Create a python application

rhc app create myodoo python-2.7 posgresql-9.2

Add this upstream repo

cd myodoo
git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/dreispt/openshift-odoo-quickstart.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

Then push the repo upstream

git push

The database admin password will generated and displayed during the app deployment.

That's it. You can now check your application at:

http://myodoo-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com

Database admin password

The database management admin password is randomly generated during the deployment. Look for a “Admin password” line of the git push output. It is stored in the environment variable ODOO_ADMIN_PASSWD.

Odoo Cron jobs

An Odoo cron worker will also be launched,

Longpolling

Since gears can only expose a single port to the outside, this app won’t be able to also expose the longpolling port.

Attachment storage

By default Odoo saves attached files to disk. They will be saved inside the gear data directory, but since the space available is limited, you would be better by configuring Odoo to save attachments to the PostgreSQL database.

Odoo configuration

The app uses the odoo.conf configuration file at the root directory, Feel free to tune it’s parameters,