We just shipped eXo Platform on Docker and it's easy to try!

Docker makes it very easy to build, ship and instantiate software in the form of lightweight containers. With all the good press and a series of announcements, there is no doubt that Docker is the format of choice for distributing eXo Platform.

That’s why we have created eXo’s official Docker image repositories at: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/exoplatform

The great advantage of Docker images is that they dramatically simplify an installation. In fact, every component is already set up and preconfigured. So it’s super easy to try eXo.

After installing Docker, you should be able to run eXo Platform with this single command line:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name=exo exoplatform/ubuntu-jdk7-exo:plf-4.1-rc1

Then, watch eXo platform’s startup logs with:

docker logs --follow exo

And wait until eXo has finished starting:

2014-11-04 16:27:12,759 | INFO  | Server startup in 89069 ms [org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina<main>]

Finally, point your browser to eXo Platform Portal and you should see eXo Platform’s welcome screen:

This image comes with the following required software installed:

Ubuntu 14.04
Oracle JDK 7 update 60
eXo Platform 4.1-RC1 Community edition

Another great thing about Docker is the way it allows inheritance from existing images. Leveraging this, and the eXo add-ons manager, we’ve made an image of the eXo Platform bundled with the chat add-on and MongoDB. Run it with:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name=exo-chat exoplatform/ubuntu-jdk7-exo-chat:1.0.0-rc1

This image inherits from the previous one and adds:

eXo Chat add-on 1.0.0-RC1
MongoDB 2.6

If you are really into Docker (and you should be), it’s also quite easy to make your own derivative image based on an official one. Just pull down the image repository locally and hack it at will!

docker pull exoplatform/ubuntu-jdk7-exo

We will update the official images as new versions become available. In the meantime, we welcome your feedback on the community forums.

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Patrice Lamarque

I am the product officer at eXo. I oversee product management and product marketing. My teams design, create and promote the features of and improvements to eXo Platform. As a former enterprise software developer turned product manager, I have a passion for how IT can improve people’s lives. In this blog, I write about some of my personal interests, such as productivity, alternative forms of management and corporate organisations, collaboration, open-source and emerging technologies.