Installing with Docker

ownCloud can be installed using Docker, using the official ownCloud Docker image. This official image is designed to work with a data volume in the host filesystem and with separate MariaDB and Redis containers. The configuration:

exposes ports 8080, allowing for HTTP connections.
mounts the data and MySQL data directories on the host for persistent storage.

Installation on a Local Machine

To use it, first create a new project directory and download docker-compose.yml from the ownCloud Docker GitHub repository into that new directory. Next, create a .env configuration file, which contains the required configuration settings. Only a few settings are required, these are:

Setting Name Description Example

Setting Name	Description	Example
`OWNCLOUD_VERSION`	The ownCloud version	`latest`
`OWNCLOUD_DOMAIN`	The ownCloud domain	`localhost`
`ADMIN_USERNAME`	The admin username	`admin`
`ADMIN_PASSWORD`	The admin user’s password	`admin`
`HTTP_PORT`	The HTTP port to bind to	`8080`

OWNCLOUD_VERSION

The ownCloud version

latest

OWNCLOUD_DOMAIN

The ownCloud domain

localhost

ADMIN_USERNAME

The admin username

admin

ADMIN_PASSWORD

The admin user’s password

admin

HTTP_PORT

The HTTP port to bind to

8080

Then, you can start the container, using your preferred Docker command-line tool. The example below shows how to use Docker Compose.

You can find instructions for using plain docker in the GitHub repository.

# Create a new project directory
mkdir owncloud-docker-server

cd owncloud-docker-server

# Copy docker-compose.yml from the GitHub repository
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owncloud-docker/server/master/docker-compose.yml

# Create the environment configuration file
cat << EOF > .env
OWNCLOUD_VERSION=10.0
OWNCLOUD_DOMAIN=localhost
ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
HTTP_PORT=8080
EOF

# Build and start the container
docker-compose up -d

When the process completes, then check that all the containers have successfully started, by running docker-compose ps. If they are all working correctly, you should expect to see output similar to that below:

Name                Command                       State             Ports
__________________________________________________________________________________________
server_db_1         /usr/bin/entrypoint/bin/s …   Up                3306/tcp
server_owncloud_1   /usr/local/bin/entrypoint …   Up                0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp
server_redis_1      /bin/s6-svscan /etc/s6        Up                6379/tcp

In it, you can see that the database, ownCloud, and Redis containers are running, and that ownCloud is accessible via port 8080 on the host machine.

Just because all the containers are running, it takes a few minutes for ownCloud to be fully functional. If you run docker-compose logs --follow owncloud and see a significant amount of information logging to the console, then please wait until it slows down to attempt to access the web UI.

Logging In

To log in to the ownCloud UI, open http://localhost:8080 in your browser of choice, where you see the standard ownCloud login screen, as in the image below.

The ownCloud UI via Docker

The username and password are the admin username and password which you stored in .env earlier.

Stopping the Containers

Assuming you used docker-compose, as in the previous example, to stop the containers use docker-compose stop. Alternatively, use docker-compose down to stop and remove containers, along with the related networks, images, and volumes.

Upgrading ownCloud on Docker

When a new version of ownCloud gets released, you should update your instance. To do so, follow these simple steps.

First, go to your docker directory where your .yaml or .env file exists. Second, put ownCloud into maintenance mode; you can do so using the following command:

docker-compose exec owncloud occ maintenance:mode --on

Third, create a backup in case something goes wrong during the upgrade process, using the following command:

docker-compose exec db backup

This assumes that you are using the default database container from Webhippie.

Fifth, shutdown the containers.

docker-compose down

Sixth, update the version number of ownCloud in your .env file or the YAML file. You can use sed for it, as in the following example.

# Make sure that you adjust the example to match your installation.
sed -i 's/^OWNCLOUD_VERSION=.*$/OWNCLOUD_VERSION=<newVersion>/' /compose/*/.env

Seventh, view the file to ensure the changes has been implemented.

cat .env

Eighth, start your docker instance again.

docker-compose up -d

Now you should have the current ownCloud running with docker-compose. Please note that the container will automatically run occ upgrade when starting up. If you notice the container starting over and over again, you can check the update log with the following command:

docker-compose logs --timestamp owncloud