@JaredBusch I think this is expected behavior and is by design.

I'll have @cody hop on now and take a look

@JaredBusch Did you give it the 2/4GB of RAM?

FWIW - We are updating the installation script to work with Centos 8.

@JaredBusch said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

@Skyetel said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

This page does not state that.
https://support.skyetel.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049697373

Fixed

And also. OMG 4GB ram?

Yea, docker and the like are resource heavy. Also - for large deployments the DB can start using a lot of RAM.

Exact same error.

CentOS 8 on a $10 Vultr Instance (2GB RAM) and I made a 2GB swapfile also.

Use 7. 8 needs some tweaking still.

This page does not state that.
https://support.skyetel.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049697373

Fixed

And also. OMG 4GB ram?

Yea, docker and the like are resource heavy. Also - for large deployments the DB can start using a lot of RAM.

@JaredBusch What size instance did you use? Please remember that Postcards requires 2GB of Ram (we recommend 4).

@JaredBusch

Let’s table this till next week. I’ll have one of our other engineers update the install script to be more inclusive for Operating Systems.

@JaredBusch said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

@Skyetel said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

@JaredBusch yes, he’s legit. Cody is one of our rockstars so be nice

Your nice or mine?

Whichever is nicer

@JaredBusch yes, he’s legit. Cody is one of our rockstars so be nice

I'll check to see if a non-docker install method is doable.

So the short answer to this question is "no," but we might modify the installation to switch to RHEL's k8s so you can use Centos 8. Our developers live and breathe containers, and trying to get them to go old school is... challenging lol.

However, we are going to be writing a few guides for users to be able to install postcards on cloud platforms like this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/ & https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

We're also going to draft some guides that show people how to the HTML source to make changes for themselves (ideally by being able to FTP into the Postcards Server and modify the HTML - but the exact method is up in the air).

@JaredBusch said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

So the CentOS 8 problem and the Fedora 32 problem both stem from this.

This is 100% a docker problem.

So @Skyetel can we get a non-docker install method "supported"

It looks like Red Hat dropped support for Docker altogether:
http://crunchtools.com/why-no-docker/

So we need to update our readme to recommend Centos 7 or Debian/Ubuntu.

I'll check to see if a non-docker install method is doable.