The official Gerrit Code Review image with an out-of-the-box setup with H2 and DEVELOPMENT account setup.
This image is intended to be used AS-IS for training or staging environments. It can be used for production as base image and requires customizations to its gerrit.config and definition of persistent external modules.
Start Gerrit Code Review in its demo/staging out-of-the-box setup:
docker run -ti -p 8080:8080 -p 29418:29418 gerritcodereview/gerrit
Wait a few minutes until the Gerrit Code Review NNN ready
message appears,
where NNN is your current Gerrit version, then open your browser to http://localhost:8080
and you will be in Gerrit Code Review.
NOTE: If your docker server is running on a remote host, change 'localhost' to the hostname or IP address of your remote docker server.
Starting from Ver. 2.14, a new introduction screen guides you through the basics of Gerrit and allows installing additional plugins downloaded from Gerrit CI.
Use docker persistent volumes to keep Gerrit data across restarts. See below a sample docker-compose.yaml for persisting the H2 Database, Lucene indexes, Caches and Git repositories.
Example of /docker-compose.yaml
version: '3'
services:
gerrit:
image: gerritcodereview/gerrit
volumes:
- git-volume:/var/gerrit/git
- db-volume:/var/gerrit/db
- index-volume:/var/gerrit/index
- cache-volume:/var/gerrit/cache
ports:
- "29418:29418"
- "8080:8080"
volumes:
git-volume:
db-volume:
index-volume:
cache-volume:
Run docker-compose up
to trigger the build and execution of your custom Gerrit docker setup.
When running Gerrit on Docker in production, it is a good idea to rely on a physical external storage with much better performance and reliability than the Docker's internal AUFS, and an external configuration directory for better change management traceability.
Additionally, you may want to replace H2 with a more robust DBMS like PostgreSQL and an external authentication system such as LDAP.
See below a more advanced example of docker-compose.yaml with PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP (from Osixia's DockerHub).
Example of /docker-compose.yaml assuming you have an external directory available as /external/gerrit
version: '3'
services:
gerrit:
image: gerritcodereview/gerrit
ports:
- "29418:29418"
- "80:8080"
links:
- postgres
depends_on:
- postgres
- ldap
volumes:
- /external/gerrit/etc:/var/gerrit/etc
- /external/gerrit/git:/var/gerrit/git
- /external/gerrit/index:/var/gerrit/index
- /external/gerrit/cache:/var/gerrit/cache
# entrypoint: java -jar /var/gerrit/bin/gerrit.war init -d /var/gerrit
postgres:
image: postgres:9.6
environment:
- POSTGRES_USER=gerrit
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret
- POSTGRES_DB=reviewdb
volumes:
- /external/gerrit/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
ldap:
image: osixia/openldap
ports:
- "389:389"
- "636:636"
environment:
- LDAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret
volumes:
- /external/gerrit/ldap/var:/var/lib/ldap
- /external/gerrit/ldap/etc:/etc/ldap/slapd.d
ldap-admin:
image: osixia/phpldapadmin
ports:
- "6443:443"
environment:
- PHPLDAPADMIN_LDAP_HOSTS=ldap
Example of /external/gerrit/etc/gerrit.config
[gerrit]
basePath = git
canonicalWebUrl = http://localhost
[database]
type = postgresql
hostname = postgres
database = reviewdb
username = gerrit
[index]
type = LUCENE
[auth]
type = ldap
gitBasicAuth = true
[ldap]
server = ldap://ldap
username=cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org
accountBase = dc=example,dc=org
accountPattern = (&(objectClass=person)(uid=${username}))
accountFullName = displayName
accountEmailAddress = mail
[sendemail]
smtpServer = localhost
[sshd]
listenAddress = *:29418
[httpd]
listenUrl = http://*:8080/
[cache]
directory = cache
[container]
user = root
Example of /external/gerrit/etc/secure.config
[database]
password = secret
[ldap]
password = secret
The external filesystem needs to be initialized with gerrit.war beforehand:
- ReviewDB created and populated with the initial DDL
- All-Projects, All-Groups and All-Users Git repositories created in Gerrit
- System Group UUIDs created in Git repositories and initialized in ReviewDB
The initialization can be done as a one-off operation before starting all containers.
Start the postgres image standalone using docker compose:
docker-compose up -d postgres
docker-compose logs -f postgres
Wait until you see in the output a message like: "database system is ready to accept connections"
Uncomment in docker-compose.yaml the Gerrit init step entrypoint and run Gerrit with docker-compose in foreground.
docker-compose up gerrit
Wait until you see in the output the message Initialized /var/gerrit
and then the container
will exit.
Comment out the gerrit init entrypoint in docker-compose.yaml and start all the docker-compose nodes:
docker-compose up -d
The sample docker compose project includes a node with PhpLdapAdmin connected to OpenLDAP and exposed via Web UX at https://localhost:6443.
The first user that logs in Gerrit is considered the initial administrator, it is important that you configure it on LDAP to login and having the ability to administer your Gerrit setup.
Login to PhpLdapAdmin using cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org
as username and secret
as password
and then create a new child node of type "Courier Mail Account" for the Gerrit Administrator
Example:
- Given Name: Gerrit
- Last Name: Admin
- Common Name: Gerrit Admin
- User ID: gerritadmin
- Email: gerritadmin@localdomain
- Password: secret
Verify that your data is correct and then commit the changes to LDAP.
Login to Gerrit on http://localhost using the new Gerrit Admin credentials created on LDAP.
Example:
- Login: gerritadmin
- Password: secret
Refer to Gerrit Documentation at http://localhost/Documentation/index.html for more information on how to configure, administer and use Gerrit Code Review.
For a full list of Gerrit Code Review resources, refer to the Gerrit Code Review home page