Neo4j is a highly scalable, robust (fully ACID) native graph database. Neo4j is used in mission-critical apps by thousands of leading, startups, enterprises, and governments around the world.

With the Dockerfile on repository you've a docker neo4j community edition image ready to go.

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/mirkods/docker-neo4j.git
2. Substitute in the Dockerfile the {{INSERT_HERE}} tag with your username and password to create secure access on neo4j

1. Build your Docker image cd docker-neo4j && docker build -t neo4j .

2. Create a data container docker create -v /data --name neo4j_data ubuntu

3. Execute this command: docker run -d -i -p 7474:7474 --volumes-from neo4j_data --name neo4j neo4j

4. Access to http://localhost:7474 with your browser.

To retrieve the container id: docker ps -a

To start a stopped container: docker start|stop <containerId>

You can also use a data container

1. Create data container

	docker run -d -v /var/lib/neo4j/data --name neo4j_data ubuntu echo Neo4j data

2. Create a neo4j container and attach the data container to itself

	docker run -d -i -p 7474:7474 --volumes-from neo4j_data --name neo4j neo4j

3.Backup from data contenier

	docker run --volumes-from neo4j_data -v $(pwd):/backup ubuntu tar cvf /backup/backup.tar /var/lib/neo4j/data/