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Running Kimai with Docker compose

This will run the latest prod version using FPM with an nginx reverse proxy:

version: '3.5'
services:

  sqldb:
    image: mysql:5.7
    environment:
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=kimai
      - MYSQL_USER=kimaiuser
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=kimaipassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=changemeplease
    volumes:
      - mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    command: --default-storage-engine innodb
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: mysqladmin -p$$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD ping -h localhost
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  nginx:
    image: tobybatch/nginx-fpm-reverse-proxy
    ports:
      - 8001:80
    volumes:
      - public:/opt/kimai/public:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - kimai
    healthcheck:
      test:  wget --spider http://nginx/health || exit 1
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  kimai:
    image: kimai/kimai2:latest
    environment:
      - ADMINMAIL=admin@kimai.local
      - ADMINPASS=changemeplease
      - DATABASE_URL=mysql://kimaiuser:kimaipassword@sqldb/kimai?charset=utf8&serverVersion=5.7
      - TRUSTED_HOSTS=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
      - MAILER_URL=smtp://mailer:1025
      - MAILER_FROM=kimai@example.com
    volumes:
      - public:/opt/kimai/public
      # - var:/opt/kimai/var
      # - ./ldap.conf:/etc/openldap/ldap.conf:z
      # - ./ROOT-CA.pem:/etc/ssl/certs/ROOT-CA.pem:z
    restart: unless-stopped

  phpmyadmin:
    image: phpmyadmin
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8081:80
    environment:
      - PMA_ARBITRARY=1

  swagger:
    image: swaggerapi/swagger-ui
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - ./swagger.json:/swagger.json
    environment:
      - SWAGGER_JSON=/swagger.json

  mailer:
    image: schickling/mailcatcher
    ports:
      - "${MAILER_SMTP_PORT:-1025}:1025"
      - "${MAILER_ADMIN_PORT:-1080}:1080"

volumes:
    var:
    public:
    mysql:

More examples

Listed here are example setups for running the image(s). If you’d like to contribute a new one them please raise a PR for this page.

Be aware that none of these images persist the DB between restarts, unless you add a volume to do that:

    volumes:
      - mysql:/var/lib/mysql

Apache dev

version: '3.5'
services:

  sqldb:
    image: mysql:5.7
    environment:
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=kimai
      - MYSQL_USER=kimaiuser
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=kimaipassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=changemeplease
    command: --default-storage-engine innodb
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: mysqladmin -p$$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD ping -h localhost
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  kimai:
    image: kimai/kimai2:apache-dev
    ports:
      - 8001:8001
    environment:
      - ADMINMAIL=admin@kimai.local
      - ADMINPASS=changemeplease
      - "DATABASE_URL=mysql://kimaiuser:kimaipassword@sqldb/kimai?charset=utf8&serverVersion=5.7"
      - TRUSTED_HOSTS=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
    restart: unless-stopped

Apache prod

version: '3.5'
services:

  sqldb:
    image: mysql:5.7
    volumes:
      - kimai-mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=kimai
      - MYSQL_USER=kimaiuser
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=kimaipassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=changemeplease
    command: --default-storage-engine innodb
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: mysqladmin -p$$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD ping -h localhost
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  kimai:
    image: kimai/kimai2:apache
    volumes:
      - kimai-var:/opt/kimai/var
    ports:
      - 8001:8001
    environment:
      - ADMINMAIL=admin@kimai.local
      - ADMINPASS=changemeplease
      - "DATABASE_URL=mysql://kimaiuser:kimaipassword@sqldb/kimai?charset=utf8&serverVersion=5.7"
      - TRUSTED_HOSTS=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  kimai-var:
  kimai-mysql:

FPM dev

version: '3.5'
services:

  sqldb:
    image: mysql:5.7
    environment:
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=kimai
      - MYSQL_USER=kimaiuser
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=kimaipassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=changemeplease
    command: --default-storage-engine innodb
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: mysqladmin -p$$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD ping -h localhost
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  nginx:
    image: tobybatch/nginx-fpm-reverse-proxy
    ports:
      - 8001:80
    volumes:
      - public:/opt/kimai/public:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - kimai
    healthcheck:
      test:  wget --spider http://nginx/health || exit 1
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  kimai:
    image: kimai/kimai2:fpm-dev
    environment:
      - ADMINMAIL=admin@kimai.local
      - ADMINPASS=changemeplease
      - "DATABASE_URL=mysql://kimaiuser:kimaipassword@sqldb/kimai?charset=utf8&serverVersion=5.7"
      - TRUSTED_HOSTS=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
    volumes:
      - public:/opt/kimai/public
      # - var:/opt/kimai/var
      # - ./ldap.conf:/etc/openldap/ldap.conf:z
      # - ./ROOT-CA.pem:/etc/ssl/certs/ROOT-CA.pem:z
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
    var:
    public:

FPM prod

version: '3.5'
services:

  sqldb:
    image: mysql:5.7
    environment:
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=kimai
      - MYSQL_USER=kimaiuser
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=kimaipassword
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=changemeplease
    command: --default-storage-engine innodb
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: mysqladmin -p$$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD ping -h localhost
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  nginx:
    image: tobybatch/nginx-fpm-reverse-proxy
    ports:
      - 8001:80
    volumes:
      - public:/opt/kimai/public:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - kimai
    healthcheck:
      test:  wget --spider http://nginx/health || exit 1
      interval: 20s
      start_period: 10s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

  kimai:
    image: kimai/kimai2:latest
    environment:
      - ADMINMAIL=admin@kimai.local
      - ADMINPASS=changemeplease
      - "DATABASE_URL=mysql://kimaiuser:kimaipassword@sqldb/kimai?charset=utf8&serverVersion=5.7"
      - TRUSTED_HOSTS=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
    volumes:
      - public:/opt/kimai/public
      # - var:/opt/kimai/var
      # - ./ldap.conf:/etc/openldap/ldap.conf:z
      # - ./ROOT-CA.pem:/etc/ssl/certs/ROOT-CA.pem:z
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
    var:
    public:
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