hbarel/docker-geoserver repository overview

⁠Dockerized GeoServer based on Tomcat 9 and alpine linux

A simple docker container that runs Geoserver on alpine linux and tomcat 9 influenced by this project: https://github.com/kartoza/docker-geoserver⁠

This image is based on the official tomcat 9⁠ alpine image, using jre8 and Java Advanced Imaging⁠ plugins

⁠Getting the image

Pull the image from Docker Hub using docker's pull command:

docker pull hbarel/docker-geoserver

(replace with the relevent version)

Build the image yourself:

docker build -t geoserver git://github.com/hagaibarel/docker-geoserver

⁠Run

To run a container do:

docker run --name "geoserver" -p 8080:8080 -d -t hbarel/docker-geoserver

Then, navigate to localhost:8080/geoserver/web

Note: The default geoserver user is 'admin' and the password is 'geoserver'. It's highly recommend that you change these as soon as you first log in.

⁠Storing data on the host rather than the container.

Docker volumes can be used to persist your data.

mkdir -p ~/geoserver_data
docker run -d -v $HOME/geoserver_data:/opt/geoserver/data_dir hbarel/docker-geoserver

You need to ensure the geoserver_data directory has sufficient permissions for the docker process to read / write it.

⁠Notes

• This image removes the Tomcat extras files and managment tools. Those are unneccesory for the GeoServer application and pose a security risk.
• this is an Alpha version. While this has been tested in a lab environment, it hasn't been tested in a production setup, so proceed with care.

⁠TODO

• Enable https on tomcat as an option when running a container