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Dockerfile to build an Alfresco container image.

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Pull the image from the docker index.

docker pull gui81/alfresco:latest

or pull a particular version:

docker pull gui81/alfresco:5.0.b-5

Alternatively, you can build the image yourself:

git clone https://github.com/gui81/docker-alfresco.git
cd docker-alfresco
docker build --tag="$USER/alfresco" .

Run the alfresco image with the name "alfresco".

docker run --name='alfresco' -it --rm -p 8080:8080 gui81/alfresco

NOTE: Please allow a few minutes for the application to start, especially if populating the database for the first time.

Go to http://localhost:8080 or point to the ip of your docker server. On the Mac, if you are running boot2docker, then you can go to the ip reported by:

boot2docker ip

The default username and password are:

• username: admin
• password: admin

Alfresco should now be up and running. The following is an example that would mount the appropriate volume, connect to a remote PostgreSQL database, and use an external LDAP server for authentication:

docker run --name='alfresco' -it --rm -p 445:445 -p 7070:7070 -p 8080:8080 \
    -v /host/alfresco_data:/alfresco/alf_data \
    -e 'LDAP_ENABLED=true' \
    -e 'LDAP_AUTH_USERNAMEFORMAT=uid=%s,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com' \
    -e 'LDAP_URL=ldap://ipa.example.com:389' \
    -e 'LDAP_DEFAULT_ADMINS=admin' \
    -e 'LDAP_SECURITY_PRINCIPAL=uid=admin,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com' \
    -e 'LDAP_SECURITY_CREDENTIALS=password' \
    -e 'LDAP_GROUP_SEARCHBASE=cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com' \
    -e 'LDAP_USER_SEARCHBASE=cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com' \
    -e 'DB_HOST=db_server.example.com' \
    -e 'DB_USERNAME=alfresco' \
    -e 'DB_PASSWORD=admin' \
    -e 'DB_NAME=alfresco' \
    gui81/alfresco

NOTE: If %s is going to be used in a fleet/systemd file, then make sure it actually is %%s so that this does not get substituted with the user shell. Fleet says that it only supports a subset of the systemd specifiers (https://coreos.com/docs/launching-containers/launching/fleet-unit-files/#systemd-specifiers), but I can tell you that %s on the latest CoreOS is being substituted.

If you want to use this image in production, then please read on.

To persist data, you will want to make sure to mount the volume shared by the image. The following volume is shared:

• /alfresco/alf_data

Volumes can be mounted by passing the '-v' option to the docker run command. The following is an example:

docker run --name alfresco -it --rm -v /host/alfresco_data:/alfresco/alf_data

If the DB_HOST environment variable is not set, then the image will use the internal PostgreSQL server. If it is set, then it will not turn on

This image assumes that you are using PostgreSQL. MySQL is supported by Alfresco as well as other database vendors, but this image currently only supports PostgreSQL. Create the database and a user that can access it with:

CREATE ROLE alfresco WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'admin';
CREATE DATABASE alfresco;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE alfresco TO alfresco;

Below is the complete list of currently available parameters that can be set using environment variables.

• ALFRESCO_HOSTNAME: hostname of the Alfresco server; default = localhost
• SHARE_HOSTNAME: hostname of the share server; default = localhost
• DB_USERNAME: username to use when connecting to the database; default = alfresco
• DB_PASSWORD: password to use when connecting to the database; default = admin
• DB_NAME: name of the database to connect to; default = alfresco
• DB_HOST: host of the database server; default = localhost
• FTP_PORT: port of the database server; default = 5432
• CIFS_ENABLED: whether or not to enable CIFS; default = true
• CIFS_SERVER_NAME: hostname of the CIFS server; default = localhost
• CIFS_DOMAIN: domain of the CIFS server; default = WORKGROUP
• NFS_ENABLED: whether or not to enable NFS; default = true
• LDAP_ENABLED: whether or not to enable LDAP; default = false
• LDAP_AUTH_USERNAMEFORMAT: default = uid=%s,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com
• LDAP_URL: URL of LDAP server; default = ldap://ldap.example.com:389
• LDAP_DEFAULT_ADMINS: comma separated list of admin names in ldap; default = admin
• LDAP_SECURITY_PRINCIPAL: default = uid=admin,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com
• LDAP_SECURITY_CREDENTIALS: default = password
• LDAP_GROUP_SEARCHBASE: default = cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com
• LDAP_USER_SEARCHBASE: default = cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com

TODO: I might be able to add some options that aid in upgrading. For now though, backup, backup, backup, and then follow this guide:

• http://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/ch-upgrade.html

• http://www.alfresco.com/community
• http://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/welcome-infocenter_community.html