Labkey Docker Image

Provides the Dockerfile, scripts and instructions needed to build the slatehorse/labkey-standalone image.

Forked from LabKey/samples to follow the release train.

IMPORTANT: This image is intended for local development and testing, and comes with no warranty of any kind.

Is there an image already built?

An image built with this Dockerfile is available at slatehorse/labkey-standalone on DockerHub. Check out the tags to check for available versions and custom builds.

Usage

Create the image

To create the image you will need do the following:

1. Download the latest version of Oracle JAVA 8 Server JRE to ./lib directory

2. Download the latest version of Tomcat 8 binary distribution to ./lib

   • Use the Core tar.gz download

3. Download the latest version of LabKey Server to ./lib directory

   • Use the Binaries for Manual Linux/Mac/Unix Installation link

4. Update the Dockerfile and change the names in the file to match the ones you downloaded above.

5. Build the image

    docker build -t slatehorse/labkey-standalone .
   

Running LabKey Server Standalone in a container

To run the image

docker run --name labkey-standalone -d -p 8080:8080 slatehorse/labkey-standalone

After few seconds, open http://:8080 to see the LabKey Server initialization page.

Pushing this image to the Docker Hub

If you are a maintainer, you can push new versions (e.g. here version 16.2) to the docker hub as follows:

1. Tag the current commit as the release version:

    git tag 16.2
   

2. Build a tagged image version:

    docker build -t slatehorse/labkey:16.2 .
   

3. Push the image to the the Docker Hub

    docker push slatehorse/labkey:16.2