Confluence Server is where you create, organise and discuss work with your team. Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence – where it's easy to find, use, and update. Give every team, project, or department its own space to create the things they need, whether it's meeting notes, product requirements, file lists, or project plans, you can get more done in Confluence.

Learn more about Confluence Server: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence

Overview

This Docker container makes it easy to get an instance of Confluence up and running.

Quick Start

For the CONFLUENCE_HOME directory that is used to store Confluence data (amongst other things) we recommend mounting a host directory as a data volume:

Set permissions for the data directory so that the runuser can write to it:

$> docker run -u root -v /data/bitbucket:/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket atlassian/bitbucket-server chown -R daemon  /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket

Start Atlassian Confluence Server:

$> docker run -v /data/bitbucket:/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket --name="bitbucket" -d -p 7990:7990 -p 7999:7999 atlassian/bitbucket-server

Success. Confluence is now available on http://localhost:8090*

Please ensure your container has the necessary resources allocated to it. We recommend 2GiB of memory allocated to accommodate both the application server and the git processes. See Supported Platforms for further information.

* Note: If you are using docker-machine on Mac OS X, please use open http://$(docker-machine ip default):8090 instead.

Upgrade

To upgrade to a more recent version of Confluence Server you can simply stop the Confluence container and start a new one based on a more recent image:

$> docker stop confluence
$> docker rm confluence
$> docker run ... (see above)

As your data is stored in the data volume directory on the host, it will still be available after the upgrade.

Note: Please make sure that you don't accidentally remove the confluence container and its volumes using the -v option.

Backup

For evaluating Confluence you can use the built-in database that will store its files in the Confluence Server home directory. In that case it is sufficient to create a backup archive of the directory on the host that is used as a volume (/data/confluence in the example above).

Confluence's automatic backup is currently not supported in the Docker setup. You can however use the Production Backup Strategy approach if you're using an external database.

Read more about data recovery and backups: Site Backup and Restore

Versioning

The latest tag matches the most recent release of Atlassian Confluence Server. So atlassian/confluence:latest will use the newest version of Confluence Server available.

Alternatively, you can use a specific minor version of Confluence Server by using a version number tag: atlassian/confluence-server:5.10. This will install the latest 5.10.x version that is available.

Issue tracker

Please raise an issue if you encounter any problems with this Dockerfile.