Pentaho is a Business Intelligence (BI) software company that offers Pentaho Business Analytics, a suite of open source products which provide data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities.

Pentaho has clearly stated that they will not be providing automated deployment solutions for their products. This is a problem since the deployment process is quite complicated.This docker project provides a much simpler deployment mechanism. It is not perfect, but with your help it can get better every day. :-)

It is based on some really splendid work done by Wellington Marinho.

• PostgreSQL 9.4
  • postgres:9.4-alpine worked nicely for me

• Start a PostgreSQL server

docker run -d -p 5432:5432 --name postgres postgres:9.4-alpine

• Run once for testing and auto-clean container

docker run --rm -it --link postgres:postgres \
-e PGHOST=postgres -e PGUSER=postgres -e PGPASSWORD= -p 8080:8080 ca0abinary/docker-pentaho

• Start in bash, prior to any scripts having executed, auto-clean (for debugging)

docker run --rm -it --link postgres:postgres \
-e PGHOST=postgres -e PGUSER=postgres -e PGPASSWORD= -p 8080:8080 \
--entrypoint bash ca0abinary/docker-pentaho

• Run as a service

docker run -d --link postgres:postgres \
-e PGHOST=postgres -e PGUSER=postgres -e PGPASSWORD= -p 8080:8080 \
ca0abinary/docker-pentaho

It's possible to run without PostgreSQL and only use the hsqldb.

If you want your data to be preserved in the event of container loss, you should keep it in a data container or volume map.

• HSQLDB
• Jackrabbit stores files locally at /opt/pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/jackrabbit/repository

Example:

docker run --rm -it \
-v /mnt/nfs-share/pentaho/hsqldb:/opt/pentaho/server/pentaho-server/data/hsqldb \
-v /mnt/nfs-share/pentaho/repository:/opt/pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/jackrabbit/repository \
-p 8080:8080 ca0abinary/docker-pentaho

• PGHOST The hostname or IP of the postgresql server
• PGPORT The port number of the postgreql service (default 5432)
• PGDATABASE The database name to use (default postgres)
• PGUSER The admin username (used for creating databases / database users) (default pgadmin)
• PGPASSWORD The admin password (default pgadmin.)

• admin - Administrator.
• pat - Business Analyst.
• suzy - Power User.
• tiffany - Report Author.

Default password is password.

The simplest docker-compose.yml file would be:

# Pentaho BI
pentaho:
    container_name: pentaho
    image: ca0abinary/docker-pentaho
    depends_on:
        - pentaho-pg
    ports:
        - "8080:8080"
    environment:
        - HOST=pentaho-pg
        - USER=pentaho
        - PASSWORD=password
    volumes:
        - pentaho-hsqldb-data:/opt/pentaho/server/pentaho-server/data/hsqldb
        - pentaho-jackrabbit-data:/opt/pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/jackrabbit/repository

# PostgreSQL Database for Pentaho BI
pentaho-pg:
    container_name: pentaho-pg
    image: postgres:9.4
    environment:
        - POSTGRES_USER=pentaho
        - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
        - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
    volumes:
        - pentaho-pg-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata

# Data volumes
volumes:
    pentaho-hsqldb-data:
    pentaho-jackrabbit-data:
    pentaho-pg-data:

Quartz and Hibernate continue to live on the internal HyperSQL database as despite changing the settings to work with PostgreSQL using the provided documentation I'm not having success. (java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver)

The databases will be created in PostgreSQL, just not used.

Please feel free to examine the scripts/setup_postgresql.sh and post a PR if you can fix it!

• Wellington Marinho.
• Pentaho 7.0 Docker Image.
• Pentaho 7.0 Documentation.