GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data. This is a docker image that eases setting up a GeoServer running specifically for GeoNode with an additional separated data directory.
The image is based on the official Tomcat 9 image
This image is available as a trusted build on the docker hub, and is the recommended method of installation. Simple pull the image from the docker hub.
$ docker pull geonode/geoserver
Alternatively you can build the image locally
$ git clone https://github.com/geonode/geoserver-docker.git
$ cd geoserver-docker
$ docker build -t "geonode/geoserver" .
You can quick start the image using the command line
Before run the container, dowload lastest data-2.xx.x.zip file from https://build.geo-solutions.it/geonode/geoserver/latest/
Create folder geoserver on your host:
$ sudo mkdir /opt/geoserver/
$ sudo unzip ~/Dowmload/data-2.15.x.zip -d /opt/geoserver/
then run the container:
$ docker run --name "geoserver" -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /opt/geoserver/data/:/geoserver_data/data -d -p 8080:8080 geonode/geoserver
Point your browser to http://localhost:8080/geoserver
and login using GeoServer's default username and password:
There are mainly two different versions of this image which are useful for running GeoNode with different authentication system types. These versions are released as specific tags for two authentication mechanisms:
Cookie based authn:
Oauth2 based authn:
You can declare what version to use along with the data directory tag which corresponds to the same version.
This GeoServer container keeps its configuration data at /geoserver_data/data
which is exposed as volume in the dockerfile.
The volume allows for stopping and starting new containers from the same image without losing all the data and custom configuration.
You may want to map this volume to a directory on the host. It will also ease the upgrade process in the future. Volumes can be mounted by passing the -v
flag to the docker run command:
-v /your/host/data/path:/geoserver_data/data
In case you are running Compose for automatically having GeoServer up and running then a data volume container will be mounted with a default preloaded GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR at the configuration data directory of the container. Make sure that the image from the repository data-docker is available from the GeoNode Docker Hub or has been built locally:
docker build -t geonode/geoserver_data .
If you run:
docker-compose stop
Data are retained in the GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR and can then be mounted in a new GeoServer instance by running again:
docker-compose up
If you run:
docker-compose down
Data are completely gone but you can ever start from the base GeoServer Data Directory built for Geonode.
There has to be a correspondence one-to-one between the data directory version and the tag of the GeoServer image used in the Docker compose file. So at the end you can consume these images below:
GeoServer recommends the usage of a spatial database
If you want to use a PostGIS container, you can link it to this image. You're free to use any PostGIS container. An example with kartooza/postgis image:
$ docker run -d --name="postgis" kartoza/postgis
For further information see kartooza/postgis.
Now start the GeoServer instance by adding the --link
option to the docker run command:
--link postgis:postgis