oslandia/dkr-ms repository overview

⁠A MapServer Docker setup

⁠Presentation

This Docker image is a container with a MapServer Setup, featuring the MapServer suite.It is based on Ubuntu 14.04 and UbuntuGIS packages.

⁠Build and/or run the container

Git clone this repository to get the Dockerfile, and cd to it.

You can build the image with :

sudo docker.io build -t oslandia/dkr-ms .

Run the container with :

sudo docker.io run --rm -P --name dkr-ms-test oslandia/dkr-ms /sbin/my_init

⁠Access the server

Once the container run, you can access MapServer and MapCache services. You need to use docker ps to find out what local host port the container is mapped to first:

$ sudo docker.io ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                    COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                   NAMES
a2d16f1a0540        oslandia/dkr-ms:latest   /sbin/my_init       23 seconds ago      Up 22 seconds       0.0.0.0:49157->80/tcp   dkr-ms-test

⁠SSH connection

This is for a temporary connexion (insecure key). Start a container with --enable-insecure-key:

docker run -rm -P --name dkr-ms-test oslandia/dkr-ms /sbin/my_init --enable-insecure-key

Find out the ID of the container that you just ran:

docker ps

Once you have the ID, look for its IP address with:

docker inspect | grep IPAddress

Now SSH into the container as follows:

curl -o insecure_key -fSL https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/raw/master/image/insecure_key⁠ chmod 600 insecure_key ssh -i insecure_key root@

More info and secure connection : https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker⁠

⁠References

Dockerfile reference : http://docs.docker.io/reference/builder/⁠