odooctl

odooctl is a CLI-first, Odoo-aware control plane for self-hosted Odoo on Docker Compose or Kubernetes — think open-source Odoo.sh for your own infrastructure. It handles the operational lifecycle generic deploy tools miss: verified backups, sanitized staging clones, module updates, rollback, environment promotion, upgrade rehearsal, and health checks, all Odoo- and PostgreSQL-aware. Existing Compose projects remain the zero-migration default.

Why odooctl

• Safety by default. Deploys to protected environments take a database + filestore backup first; failed module updates and failed health checks stop the deployment with a non-zero exit.
• Verify before destroy. Restores land in a temporary database and are only swapped into place after the restore succeeds — a bad backup never destroys a working environment.
• Off-host backup policy is explicit. S3 copies can be required, best_effort, or disabled, with byte verification, project-scoped object namespaces, and retention that never treats an unknown old upload as safe to delete.
• Filestore migrations verify every byte. Local paths and Docker volumes can migrate to a POSIX object mount or a project-scoped S3-compatible generation; cutover is explicit and source deletion is a separate, fully-confirmed operation.
• Staging clones you can trust. odooctl clone production staging sanitizes by default: mail servers, crons, payment providers, queue jobs, OAuth secrets, IAP tokens, and webhook URLs are neutralized — including wiping Odoo 19 WebAuthn passkeys — so staging cannot email customers or charge cards.
• Adopt what you already run. odooctl import detects an existing compose deployment read-only, previews the generated config, and only writes on --yes — then registers the project, runs preflight checks, and takes a safety backup.
• Protected environments. Production-tier environments require elevated confirmation for destructive operations, in the CLI, API, and web UI alike.
• Secrets stay secret. Config references secrets by env-var name only; logs, errors, and streamed operation events are redacted.
• A local API and web UI, RBAC'd. odooctl serve runs a localhost-only REST API plus a no-build web UI with viewer/operator/admin/owner roles, HMAC bearer tokens, and a privileged runner kept in a separate process.
• Upgrade rehearsal, not upgrade roulette. odooctl migrate rehearse clones production into a throwaway DB, runs the (OpenUpgrade-backed) upgrade there, health-checks, and writes a report. Production is never touched.

Quickstart

A. Adopt an existing Docker Compose deployment

# Read-only detection and preview — no containers touched, no secrets stored
odooctl import /srv/odoo/acme

# Adopt: write odooctl.yml, register the project, run doctor, take a safety backup
odooctl import /srv/odoo/acme --name acme --yes

# First verified backup, then a sanitized staging environment in one command
odooctl -p acme backup production --verify
odooctl -p acme env create staging --clone-from production

B. Start a fresh project

mkdir acme && cd acme
odooctl setup --name acme --stack odoo-19-community   # or run interactively: odooctl setup

setup scaffolds odooctl.yml from a pinned stack template (secrets referenced by env-var name, never inlined). Edit the domain, database names, and your docker-compose.yml, then:

export ODOO_DB_PASSWORD='a-strong-secret'
odooctl validate
odooctl doctor
odooctl deploy production --branch main

Either way, day-2 operations look like:

odooctl backup production --verify
odooctl clone production staging --sanitize
odooctl update-modules staging --modules sale,stock
odooctl restore staging --backup latest
odooctl rollback production --mode code
odooctl migrate rehearse --env production --to 19.0 --openupgrade
odooctl status

Features

Provider snapshots are deliberately coarse DR artifacts: one provider source is bound to one environment, recovery is plan-only by default, and execution creates isolated resources only after exact snapshot/source confirmation. They supplement rather than replace portable database + filestore backups; see the lifecycle and cost notes.

Web UI

The optional web UI is a no-build vanilla-JS SPA served by the local API:

pip install 'odooctl[api]'
export ODOOCTL_API_KEY="$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))')"
odooctl serve            # binds 127.0.0.1:8787 by default

Open http://localhost:8787/ and paste a token minted with:

odooctl security token mint --action api --env "*" --project "*" --role operator

The server is localhost-only by design and speaks plain HTTP — do not bind it to a public address; use an SSH tunnel for remote access. The API process never touches Docker or PostgreSQL directly: privileged work is delegated to odooctl runner through a durable queue with short-lived, single-use capability tokens. See docs/web-ui.md and docs/api.md.

How it compares

Compared to Odoo.sh, odooctl is self-hosted and free: your server, your data, no per-worker pricing — with the same core workflow of environments, backups, staging builds, and upgrade testing. Compared to doodba, odooctl is not a project scaffolding framework; it manages the operational lifecycle (backup, clone, restore, promote, rehearse) of whatever compose project you already have — including one built with doodba. Compared to hand-rolled compose scripts, every destructive path here ships with tested safety rails: pre-deploy backups, restore-into-temp-then-swap, sanitization that is on by default, protected-environment confirmation, and secret redaction, backed by 700+ unit tests plus a real-Odoo integration suite.

Supported Odoo versions

Odoo 17, 18, and 19 (Community) are integration-tested: a disposable-stack harness in tests/integration/ runs the full operator lifecycle against real odoo:17/odoo:18/odoo:19 images. See docs/odoo-versions.md for per-version notes.

Install

PyPI publication is coming soon — pipx install odooctl / uv tool install odooctl will work once released. Today, install from source:

git clone https://github.com/odooctl/odooctl && cd odooctl
pipx install .          # or: uv tool install .
odooctl --help

The host also needs Docker Engine with the Compose plugin and tar. With the recommended execution_mode: docker, PostgreSQL client tools run inside your DB container, so the host needs none. See docs/installation.md.

Development

uv sync --frozen --extra dev --extra api           # exactly what CI installs
uv run --frozen pytest -q                          # unit suite
uv run --frozen ruff check odooctl tests           # lint
uv run --frozen pytest -m integration tests/integration  # opt-in real-Odoo matrix (needs Docker)

uv.lock is authoritative — --frozen keeps your environment identical to CI's. See CONTRIBUTING.md for changing dependencies.

Safety defaults

• Deploys to protected environments create database and filestore backups first.
• Module-update and health-check failures fail the deployment with a non-zero exit.
• Restores go into a temporary database and are swapped in only after success.
• DR drills restore into disposable PostgreSQL and Odoo containers on an internal network with dedicated volumes; live services and data volumes are never restore targets.
• PITR restores into an isolated PostgreSQL runtime and a new verified database before an explicit, OID-fenced cutover. WAL recovery is database-only and never claims to rewind the Odoo filestore.
• Filestore migration cutover re-verifies both the target and unchanged source; source deletion is a separate operation requiring exact environment and migration confirmations.
• Clone sanitization is on by default and disables mail, fetchmail, crons, payment providers, queue jobs, and automation rules; scrubs OAuth/IAP/webhook credentials; deletes Odoo 19 passkeys; and rewrites and freezes web.base.url.
• Secrets are referenced via environment variables (password_env) and redacted from logs, errors, and operation events; never commit secret values.
• The API/runner split is structurally enforced: odooctl security runner-check verifies the API layer imports no privileged adapters.

See docs/security.md for the trust model.

Contributing, security, license

Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md and the Code of Conduct. Good entry points are issues labeled good first issue and help wanted. Report vulnerabilities privately per SECURITY.md.

odooctl is free software, dual-licensed: AGPL-3.0-or-later for open use — including running it commercially for yourself or your clients — with a commercial license available for embedding or reselling it in proprietary products. See LICENSING.md.