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You must have Docker Engine installed. See https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ for information on how to do that.

Start a command session to the Docker host and make sure you can run docker commands. If necessary sudo to root or other user.

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The application, repository, and vsm folders are stored outside of the container, so when the container is upgraded that data is not lost. Hence we need to setup Database and various Folders firstThat folder must be created before attempting to mount it to the container.

Note

You will need to download the FlexDeploy Tomcat distribution for database scripts and plugins. Otherwise, use the automated installer, which will do everything for you.

In this step, we will create plugin folder, then copy plugins from download zip in to necessary folder.

Code Block
# as root

# adjust folder location as necessary for your Docker Host
mkdir -p /scratch/DockerVolume/flexdeploy
chmodmkdir -R 777p /scratch/DockerVolume
cd/application/plugins

#Set your permissions to limit everyone access.
#Currently FlexDeploy on supports running the Docker container as root.
chmod -R 700 /scratch/DockerVolume

# mkdirCopy -pthe application/plugins into the mount so that the container will have access to them.
cd /scratch/DockerVolume/application/plugins
cp <unzipped ~/Tomcat_Complete-6.0.0.0 Complete Zip>/application/plugins/*.jar .

# Once they are there, the container will process them.
# Please don't modify the files and folders that are created in the mount, otherwise the database will not match, and the plugins page will not work properly.
# The goal of the mount is a permanent place to store things across FlexDeploy upgrades.
Tip

If you need to use additional libraries or files you can place them under /scratch/DockerVolume/flexdeploy. You can then copy the necessary file from inside of the container to wherever they need to go. For example any additional libraries can go from /dockervolume to /usr/local/tomcat/libext.

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  1. p - in this example 8000 is the port which FlexDeploy will be accessed on mapping to port 8080 in the container

  2. FLEX_DB_URL - jdbc URL for accessing the database. See below for syntax

  3. FD_ADMIN_PWD - Password for the fdadmin user in the database

  4. INFLUX_DB_USER - Username for the built in influxdb. Not used in version 6.5.0.2 and later.

  5. INFLUX_DB_PASSWORD - Password for the built in influxdb. Username and password are only used upon first initialization. After that token is used to connect to the database. Not used in version 6.5.0.2 and later.

  6. INFLUX_DB_TOKEN - Token used to connect to the built in influxdb. Not used in version 6.5.0.2 and later.

  7. TZ - Time zone for the container. Given example is America/Chicago.

  8. dbtype - if you are using postgres or oracle database.

  9. v - This will set where your application, repository, vsm and logs folders will go on the docker host. Everything before the colon is on the local machine, after is inside the container. Leave that as /dockervolume. It was /home/oracle until 6.0.0.7, 6.5.0.2, 7.0.0.0 FlexDeploy Docker Images, and has been changed. This is a breaking change.

  10. Last is the image which will be flexdeploy/fd_tcat: and the version you want to run.

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