Improving README.md in the Quickstart section

[layer7gmbh]

Hi,

at very first, thank you for your work! Using netbox with docker makes setup in general much easier/faster.

Since i run into this issue, i wanted to suggest to change the Quickstart information in the readme.md of the project page.

Currently its:

git clone -b release https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-docker.git
cd netbox-docker
tee docker-compose.override.yml <<EOF
version: '3.4'
services:
  nginx:
    ports:
      - 8000:8080
EOF
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up

But without defining:

ALLOWED_HOSTS

like: ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost ::1 127.0.0.1

in the netbox.env file inside the env folder of the downloaded package

before

running

docker-compose up

the brought up container will answer browser connection attempts with

The connection was reset

So defining ALLOWED_HOSTS is actually mandatory.

Without doing it, this:

"The whole application will be available after a few minutes. Open the URL http://0.0.0.0:8000/ in a web-browser."

will always fail ( at least it did always fail with me ). By the way should that 0.0.0.0 not be better replaced by "localhost" ?

So in my humble opinion, this could be mentioned in the Quickstart section to make things more streight forward.

Greetings & stay healthy!
Oliver

[cimnine]

If ALLOWED_HOSTS is undefined, we consider it as '*', which allows any hostname, as per Netbox documentation.

You can see this in our configuration.py.