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Migrating from 1.4.X

Read this if you were a 1.4.X user

A lot of things changed since the 1.4.X releases. Container-based integrations stacks contain more services but, trust us, fundamental principles of BunkerWeb are still there. You will find ready to use boilerplates for various integrations in the misc/integrations folder of the repository.

Scheduler

Back to the 1.4.X releases, jobs (like Let's Encrypt certificate generation/renewal or blacklists download) were executed in the same container as BunkerWeb. For the purpose of separation of concerns, we decided to create a separate service which is now responsible for managing jobs.

Called Scheduler, this service also generates the final configuration used by BunkerWeb and acts as an intermediary between autoconf and BunkerWeb. In other words, the scheduler is the brain of the BunkerWeb 1.5.X stack.

You will find more information about the scheduler here.

Database

BunkerWeb configuration is no more stored in a plain file (located at /etc/nginx/variables.env if you didn't know it). That's it, we now support a fully-featured database as a backend to store settings, cache, custom configs, ... 🥳

Using a real database offers many advantages :

  • Backup of the current configuration
  • Usage with multiple services (scheduler, web UI, ...)
  • Upgrade to a new BunkerWeb version

Please note that we actually support, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL as backends.

You will find more information about the database here.

Redis

When BunkerWeb 1.4.X was used in cluster mode (Swarm or Kubernetes integrations), data were not shared among the nodes. For example, if an attacker was banned via the "bad behavior" feature on a specific node, he could still connect to the other nodes.

Security is not the only reason to have a shared data store for clustered integrations, caching is also another one. We can now store results of time-consuming operations like (reverse) dns lookups so they are available for other nodes.

We actually support Redis as a backend for the shared data store.

See the list of redis settings and the corresponding documentation of your integration for more information.

Default values and new settings

The default value of some settings have changed and we have added many other settings, we recommend you read the security tuning and settings sections of the documentation.