Passing Elasticsearch and Kibana config file to docker containers

Question

I have found a docker image devdb/kibana which runs Elasticsearch 1.5.2 and Kibana 4.0.2. However I would like to pass into this docker container the configuration files for both Elasticsearch (i.e elasticsearch.yml) and Kibana (i.e config.js)

Can I do that with this image itself? Or for that would I have to build a separate docker container?

Answer 1

Can I do that with this image itself?

yes, just use Docker volumes to pass in your own config files

Let say you have the following files on your docker host:

• /home/liv2hak/elasticsearch.yml
• /home/liv2hak/kibana.yml

you can then start your container with:

docker run -d --name kibana -p 5601:5601 -p 9200:9200 \
    -v /home/liv2hak/elasticsearch.yml:/opt/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml \
    -v /home/liv2hak/kibana.yml:/opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml \
    devdb/kibana

I was able to figure this out by looking at your image Dockerfile parents which are: devdb/kibana→devdb/elasticsearch→abh1nav/java7→abh1nav/baseimage→phusion/baseimage and also taking a peek into a devdb/kibana container: docker run --rm -it devdb/kibana find /opt -type f -name *.yml.

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Or for that would I have to build a separate docker container?

I assume you mean build a separate docker image?. That would also work, for instance the following Dockerfile would do that:

FROM devdb/kibana
COPY elasticsearch.yml /opt/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml
COPY kibana.yml /opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml

Now build the image: docker build -t liv2hak/kibana .

And run it: docker run -d --name kibana -p 5601:5601 -p 9200:9200 liv2hak/kibana