SENAITE Docker

SENAITE is a free and open source LIMS built on top of Plone and the Zope application server.

This repository is based plone.docker – Thanks to the great work of @avoinea and the other contributors.

Try SENAITE

Click the Try in PWD button below to get 4 hours to try SENAITE LIMS:

NOTE: A DockerHub account is needed.

Authentication: admin:admin

Usage

Choose either single Plone instance or ZEO cluster.

It is inadvisable to use following configurations for production.

Standalone SENAITE Instance

Standalone instances are best suited for testing SENAITE and development.

Download and start the latest SENAITE container, based on Debian.

$ docker run -p 8080:8080 senaite

This image exposes the TCP Port 8080 via EXPOSE 8080, so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers.

Now you can add a SENAITE Site at http://localhost:8080 - default user and password are admin/admin.

ZEO Cluster

ZEO cluster are best suited for production setups, you will need a loadbalancer.

Start ZEO server in the background

$ docker run -d --name=zeo senait zeo

Start 2 SENAITE clients (also in the background)

$ docker run -d --name=instance1 --link=zeo -e ZEO_ADDRESS=zeo:8080 -p 8081:8080 senaite
$ docker run -d --name=instance2 --link=zeo -e ZEO_ADDRESS=zeo:8080 -p 8082:8080 senaite

Start SENAITE In Debug Mode

You can also start Plone in debug mode (fg) by running

$ docker run -p 8080:8080 senaite fg

Debug mode may also be used with ZEO

$ docker run --link=zeo -e ZEO_ADDRESS=zeo:8080 -p 8080:8080 senaite fg

For more information on how to extend this image with your own custom settings, adding more add-ons, building it or mounting volumes, please refer to our documentation.

Supported Environment Variables

The Plone image uses several environment variable that allow to specify a more specific setup.

For Basic Usage

• ADDONS - Customize SENAITE via Plone add-ons using this environment variable
• ZEO_ADDRESS - This environment variable allows you to run Plone image as a ZEO client.

Run Plone with ZEO and install two addons (PloneFormGen and collective.roster)

$ docker run --name=instance1 --link=zeo -e ZEO_ADDRESS=zeo:8080 -p 8080:8080 \
-e ADDONS="Products.PloneFormGen collective.roster" plone

To use specific add-ons versions:

 -e ADDONS="Products.PloneFormGen==1.8.5 collective.roster==2.3.1"

For Advanced Usage

• PLONE_ZCML, ZCML - Include custom Plone add-ons ZCML files (former BUILDOUT_ZCML)
• PLONE_DEVELOP, DEVELOP - Develop new or existing Plone add-ons (former BUILDOUT_DEVELOP)
• ZEO_READ_ONLY - Run Plone as a read-only ZEO client. Defaults to off.
• ZEO_CLIENT_READ_ONLY_FALLBACK - A flag indicating whether a read-only remote storage should be acceptable as a fallback when no writable storages are available. Defaults to false.
• ZEO_SHARED_BLOB_DIR - Set this to on if the ZEO server and the instance have access to the same directory. Defaults to off.
• ZEO_STORAGE - Set the storage number of the ZEO storage. Defaults to 1.
• ZEO_CLIENT_CACHE_SIZE - Set the size of the ZEO client cache. Defaults to 128MB.
• ZEO_PACK_KEEP_OLD - Can be set to false to disable the creation of *.fs.old files before the pack is run. Defaults to true.