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Apache guacamole docker compose

Today, let us see the steps followed by support techs for installation of apache guacamole

• Downloading the images:

docker pull guacamole/guacamole
docker pull guacamole/guacd
docker pull mariadb/server

• Then, creating the database initialization script:

docker run –rm guacamole/guacamole /opt/guacamole/bin/initdb.sh –mysql > guac_db.sql

• Next, creating our initial docker-compose.yaml:

version: ‘3’

services:

guacdb:

container_name: guacdb

image: mariadb/server:latest

restart: unless-stopped

environment:

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ‘MariaDBRootPSW’

MYSQL_DATABASE: ‘guacamole_db’

MYSQL_USER: ‘guacamole_user’

MYSQL_PASSWORD: ‘MariaDBUserPSW’

volumes:

– ‘guacdb-data:/var/lib/mysql’

volumes:

guacdb-data:

• Bringing the db container up:

docker-compose up -d

• Copying db initialization script into the container:

docker cp guac_db.sql guacdb:/guac_db.sql

• Opening a shell and initializing the db:

docker exec -it guacdb bash
cat /guac_db.sql | mysql -u root -p guacamole_db
exit

Shutting down db container:

docker-compose down

Expanding our docker-compose.yaml:

version: ‘3’

services:

guacdb:

container_name: guacdb

image: mariadb/server:latest

restart: unless-stopped

environment:

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ‘MariaDBRootPSW’

MYSQL_DATABASE: ‘guacamole_db’

MYSQL_USER: ‘guacamole_user’

MYSQL_PASSWORD: ‘MariaDBUserPSW’

volumes:

– ‘guacdb-data:/var/lib/mysql’

guacd:

container_name: guacd

image: guacamole/guacd

restart: unless-stopped

guacamole:

container_name: guacamole

image: ‘guacamole/guacamole:latest’

restart: unless-stopped

ports:

– ‘8080:8080’

environment:

GUACD_HOSTNAME: “guacd”

MYSQL_HOSTNAME: “guacdb”

MYSQL_DATABASE: “guacamole_db”

MYSQL_USER: “guacamole_user”

MYSQL_PASSWORD: “MariaDBUserPSW”

depends_on:

– guacdb

– guacd

volumes:

guacdb-data:

• Bringing everything up again:

docker-compose up -d

• Logging in:

At this point you should be able to browse to http://my.docker.ip.address:8080/guacamole and login with guacadmin/guacadmin.

Despite the application container having a dependency on guacdb and guacd in the compose file, you can still run into minor trouble after system reboots.

Bringing up the containers on the reboot is handled by the docker daemon (and not docker-compose) which is unaware of the dependancy and will happily start all containers at once without waiting for the required dependancies to become healthy.

The “restart: unless-stopped” should bring guacamole right back up and successfully connect, but you might see signs of a previously failed container launch in the logs immediately after a reboot.

If this concerns you, you can disable the container autostart and run docker-compose via cron upon reboots to bring up your stack or use some alternative orchestration tool.

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Conclusion

In this article, we provide a quick and simple solution from our Support team to install Apache guacamole docker compose