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In this guide we will show you how to create a Docker container for Odysseus. Such a container can help you to run and share Odysseus more easily. If you want to user our predefined Odysseus Server Docker Container, see Run with Docker.

Step-by-step guide

We assume that you have a Linux system up and running, e.g. Ubuntu. If you want to try it out without changing your system or if you don't have a Linux machine, we recommend VirtualBox.

Installing Docker

  1. Open a Terminal window.
  2.  Type "docker"
  3. If Docker is already installed, a help page with common Docker options and commands will show up.
  4. If not, your Terminal will probably give you a hint how to install Docker. Under Ubuntu, it is "sudo apt-get install docker.io"

Preparing the Folder

Now we need a folder where we can put everything that we need in.

  1. Create a folder, e.g. in your "Documents"-folder.
  2. Move to that folder
  3. Create another folder "odysseus" in that folder

Creating the magic folder
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~$ ls
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  examples.desktop  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~$ cd Documents/
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ ls
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ mkdir odysseusdocker
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ ls
odysseusdocker
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ cd odysseusdocker/
tobi@tobi-VirtualBox:~/Documents/odysseusdocker$ mkdir odysseus

 

  1. Now we need the version from Odysseus that we want to run. We can use the Odysseus Server Version as an example.
  2. Download Odysseus Server for Linux here (we use the 64-bit version): http://odysseus.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php?id=76
  3. Unzip the content of your download to the odysseus-folder within our "odysseusdocker"-folder
  4. Create a new file in the "odysseusdocker"-folder with the name "startup.sh" and the content in the box below (e.g. with nano or some other text editor)

 

startup.sh
#!/bin/sh
cd home
cd odysseus
echo "Starting Odysseus ..."
./odysseus

 

  1. Now we want to create the Dockerfile which describes our Docker container
  2. Create a new file called "Dockerfile" within our "odysseusdocker"-folder (e.g. with nano again or what ever you prefer)
  3. Put the content from the box below into the Dockerfile

 

Dockerfile
 # We will use Ubuntu as our basis
FROM ubuntu:15.10
 
# We need Java 8 - install Java 8 on that Ubuntu machine
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install software-properties-common -y
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
RUN apt-get update
RUN echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | debconf-set-selections
RUN apt-get install oracle-java8-installer -y
RUN apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
 
# Add java to environment variables
ENV JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
 
# Start Odysseus on startup of the container
ADD startup.sh /home/startup.sh
ADD odysseus /home/odysseus
CMD ./home/startup.sh
 
# We need a port to be exposed
EXPOSE 9669

 

 

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