An attempt to provide some scripts that make it easier to work with Liferay Docker images.
- liferayctl (for Linux and OS X)
There is currently only one script pull request about other scripts and support for other operating systems are more than welcome!!
For people comfortable with working with Docker directly, such scripts may not bring a lot of value. However for those that don't care much about Docker itself but rather want to have a quick, simple and convenient way to run particular Liferay version - it should come very handy.
Lets try it out. Make sure you have Docker installed. If you are running OS X, make sure you are in boot2docker terminal window.
Then type:
curl -LO http://tiny.cc/liferayctl && chmod +x liferayctl
./liferayctl startThis will:
- download the
liferayctlscript and make it executable - download the Docker image of the latest stable Liferay version (6.2ga4 at the time of writing)
- create a container from that image and run it
- make container's HTTP and AJP ports to you host
Since this is the first time you run the command it needs to download the container image so it will take some time.
Once it's ready go to localhost:8080
Like that? Cool, Lets have another one:
liferayctl -v latest -p 8180 -a 8108 startthis will run the the latest released version of Liferay (7.0m7 at the time of writing) in another Docker container (it will also take a while to download the new image).
Here apart form -v latest which specifies the latest released version, we also have -p 8180 -a 8108 to specify different HTTP and AJP ports to avoid conflicts with the container we started earlier. Time to go to localhost:8180 and enjoy Liferay 7 ;)
Once we are done playing with them, we can stop them:
liferayctl stop
liferayctl -v latest stopThis will stop and remove both containers. New ones can be created and started at any time though with liferayctl <OPTIONS> start.
The data is persisted in a data volume container(s), so destroying and recreating containers does not cause any data loss.