I am starting to use Docker, and now I would like to use it for running Alfresco instances.
I tried to install Alfresco using the single file installer obtained from:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_file_list_4.2.e (572Mb)
After inserting the installer file and run the recently created image, I execute:
root@3e8b72d208e4:/root# chmod u+x alfresco.sh
root@3e8b72d208e4:/root# mv alfresco.sh alfresco.bin
root@3e8b72d208e4:/root# ./alfresco.bin
root@3e8b72d208e4:/root#
After 1 second, the ./alfresco.bin process ends with no output. It is supposed to prompt some installer options.
I'm running Docker on Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits with 8Gb in RAM. What would be the right procedure to install Alfresco on a Docker container using the installer?
The problem is that the bitrock installer requires tmpfs which in turn requires extra privileges for the executing the container. Run your container with
docker run -i -t -privileged <image> [<command>]
and execute
mount none /tmp -t tmpfs
within the container.
After that, the installer will run just fine.
Unfortately, things get messy if what you want is building an image from a dockerfile. docker build does not provide the -privileged switch or a RUNP instruction. You might want to have a look at https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/1916 for further discussion.