geoserver-on-docker.md

Setting up Geoserver on docker

This use case illustrate how to deploy geoserver when building a webmapping application using microservices architecture based on docker container technology.

Prerequisite

• proper docker installation on the machine.

Optional :

• Setup a PostGIS/PostgreSQL server on docker.

Getting Geosever image

Pull the image

docker pull kartoza/geoserver

Create an empty data directory to use to persist your data.

mkdir -p ~/geoserver_data && chmod -R a+rwx ~/geoserver_data

Run the image

docker run --name "geoserver" -v $HOME/geoserver_data:/opt/geoserver/data_dir/mydata -p 8080:8080 -d -t kartoza/geoserver

If you have a running postgis database, you can run the image with

docker run --name "geoserver" -v $HOME/geoserver_data:/opt/geoserver/data_dir/mydata --link postgis:postgis -p 8080:8080 -d -t kartoza/geoserver

Point the browser to http://localhost:8080/geoserver and login using admin/geoserver

To connect to the postgis database, use the following parameters

Nginx configuration file sample

server {

        root /var/www/geoserver.domain.my/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name geoserver.domain.my;
	
	proxy_redirect off;

	location / {
		return $scheme://geoserver.domain.my/geoserver$request_uri;
	}

        location /geoserver {
	    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/geoserver;
	    proxy_pass_header Set-Cookie;
	    proxy_set_header Host $host;
	    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
	    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
	}
}

References :

• https://hub.docker.com/r/kartoza/geoserver/