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Running Kimai inside docker

Kimai 1.14 2.15.0 (latest version)

We offer Kimai Docker images, both for development and a docker-compose setup suitable for running in a production environment.

Any issues with the container rather than the application itself can be raised here.

Docker Hub

The Docker Hub repo, where you find the auto-building prod and dev containers for Kimai is: https://hub.docker.com/r/kimai/kimai2

Quick start

This will run the latest production build and make it accessible at http://localhost:8001.

  1. Start a DB

     docker run --rm --name kimai-mysql-testing \
     -e MYSQL_DATABASE=kimai \
     -e MYSQL_USER=kimai \
     -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=kimai \
     -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=kimai \
     -p 3399:3306 -d mysql

  2. Start Kimai

     docker run --rm --name kimai-test \
     -ti \
     -p 8001:8001 \
     -e DATABASE_URL=mysql://kimai:kimai@${HOSTNAME}:3399/kimai?charset=utf8mb4&serverVersion=8.3.0 \
     kimai/kimai2:apache

  3. Add a user using the terminal

     docker exec -ti kimai-test \
     /opt/kimai/bin/console kimai:user:create admin admin@example.com ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN

  4. Stop the containers

     docker stop kimai-mysql-testing kimai-test

  5. When you are finished testing Kimai, you can remove the containers (warning: you will lose your data!).

     docker rm kimai-mysql-testing kimai-test

If you are happy with Kimai, you can now setup your Docker installation using Docker Compose.

Runtime Arguments

The following settings can set at runtime:

PHP memory limit

The maximum amount of memory a script may consume, https://php.net/memory-limit

memory_limit=512M

Kimai core settings

See the Kimai and Symfony docs for more info on these.

DATABASE_URL=mysql://user:pass@hodt/dbname?charset=utf8mb4&serverVersion=8.3.0
APP_SECRET=change_this_to_something_unique
TRUSTED_PROXIES=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
TRUSTED_HOSTS=nginx,localhost,127.0.0.1
MAILER_FROM=kimai@example.com
MAILER_URL=null://localhost

Start up values:

If set, then these values will be used to create a new admin user (if not yet existing).

ADMINPASS=
ADMINMAIL=

Changing UID and GID

It is possible to set the user that FPM or Apache run as. If the user does not exist a new user called www-kimai is created and the server is then run under that user. Note these must be numbers, not names.

USER_ID=1000
GROUP_ID=1000

Alternate DB config

It is possible to pass the DB config in individual values. If the ENV variable DB_TYPE is set then the following values will be expected:

The DB_TYPE must be mysql:

  • DB_USER defaults to kimai
  • DB_PASS defaults to kimai
  • DB_HOST defaults to sqldb
  • DB_PORT defaults to 3306
  • DB_BASE defaults to kimai

The official docker documentation has more options on running the container.

Tips & Tricks

If you’re using Docker for Windows or Docker for Mac, and you’re getting “Connection refused” or other errors, you might need to change ${HOSTNAME} to host.docker.internal. This is because the Kimai Docker container can only communicate within its network boundaries. Alternatively, you can start the container with the flag --network="host". See here for more information.

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