Thanks to @Nevexo, one of the contributors for the project, starting with cState v4.3 there is official Docker support.

We still recommend using cState as a serverless option on, for example, Netlify, because the authors can attempt to give support and guidance. However, this is an alternative for effectively what is dynamic hosting instead of the aforementioned static hosting. Proceed if you so wish.

cState can run on Docker for both production and development purposes.

cState (currently) doesn't have a publicly built image, so it must be built manually. You can do this on any machine that has Docker and Git installed.

1. Clone the main cState repository: git clone https://github.com/cstate/cstate
2. Navigate to the cState directory: cd cstate
3. Build the image: docker build -t cstate . (note: you can add :[version] after cState if you wish to have multiple versions of cState available).

Once you've built (or pulled) the container, you can run cState.

docker run -p 8080:80 --name=cstate -v /var/cstate:/app cstate

You can replace 8080 with any other port, this is where cState will listen on the host computer.

You can replace /var/cstate with any other path, this is where cState's files will be stored, the user managing cState will need access to this directory.

Once files have been modified locally, the site must be rebuilt with Hugo. The easiest way to do this is to simply restart the container.

docker restart cstate

If restarting the container isn't a possibility, you can manually run hugo with docker exec

``` docker exec -it cstate /bin/ash cd /app hugo cp -r /app/public/* /usr/share/nginx/html ```