Docker Files for FIWARE Labs (partially) flavoured CKAN

CKAN is a powerful Data Management system used to power Open Data catalogues across the world, including many national portals. It has many publishing and curating features and offers a full API to access both the metadata and certain data formats.

Full documentation for CKAN can be found at http://docs.ckan.org.

How to use these Docker files with Docker Compose

This requires Docker Compose to be installed.

Docker Compose will take care of running and linking the following services:

• Postgres
• Solr
• Redis
• DataPusher
• CKAN itself

There are a few things to be done before launching the instance:

1. Edit .env and change variables to suit your needs:

   • Change PASSWORD and RO_PASSWORD
   • Add the CKAN_SITE_URL
   • If you wish to create an initial CKAN Admin, change CKAN_SYSADMIN to true and add needed information

2. If needed, add any aditional override settings in configs.ini (like SMTP configuration or OAuth settings)

Once you've completed the above steps, launch your CKAN instance with Docker Compose

docker-compose build --pull --force-rm
docker-compose up -d

After a couple of minutes, your CKAN instance should be available at the url defined in CKAN_SITE_URL

Features

There are a number of things that set this build apart from others availble (including official images);

1. Respects Docker best practices and attempts to seperate as much as possible each service into its own container;
2. Automates the creation of the initial sysadmin user (no need to exec into a container to add the initial sysadmin user);
3. Properly sets up the datastore database permissions and user;
4. Doesn't bundle a static production.ini (which re-uses CKAN_UUID and CKAN_secret entries) and yet still allows easy overrides of default configs created by paster make-config ckan