(Optional) Try with Docker

Requirements

Hardware

If you want to build the Docker image by yourself, please ensure that your machine has at least 2GB memory. Casdoor's frontend is a NPM project of React. Building the frontend requires at least 2GB memory. Less than 2GB memory may lead to frontend build failure.

If you just need to run the pre-built image, please ensure that your machine has at least 100MB memory.

OS

All OSes (Linux, Windows and macOS) are supported.

Docker

You can use docker (docker-engine version >= 17.05) in Linux or Docker Desktop in Windows and macOS.

Docker

Users of all OSes must ensure that the docker-engine version >= 17.05. It is because we use multi-stage build feature in docker-compose.yml, which was supported in 17.05 and above versions. See https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/ for more information.

If you also use docker-compose, please ensure that docker-compose version >= 2.2. For Linux users, you also need to make sure that docker-compose is installed, given that it is separated from docker-engine.

Get the image

We have provided two DockerHub images:

Name	Description	Suggestion
casdoor-all-in-one	Both Casdoor and a MySQL database are inside the image	Already includes a toy database and only for test purpose
casdoor	Only Casdoor is inside the image	Can be connected to your own database and used in production

casbin/casdoor-all-in-one, in which casdoor binary, a mysql database and all necessary configurations are packed up. This image is for new users to have a trial on casdoor quickly. With this image you can start a casdoor immediately with one single command (or two) without any complex configuration. Note: we DO NOT recommend you to use this image in productive environment

Option-1: Use the toy database

Run the container with port 8000 exposed to host. It will automatically pull the image if it doesn't exist in the local host.

docker run -p 8000:8000 casbin/casdoor-all-in-one

caution

Some users in areas like China usually use Docker image mirror services like Alibaba Cloud Image Booster (English) to achieve higher download speed compared to DockerHub. However, it has a known issue that the latest tag provided by those services is not up-to-date. It probably results in a very old image by fetching the latest tag. To mitigate this issue, you can specify the image version number explicitly by using the following command:

docker pull casbin/casdoor-all-in-one:$(curl -sS "https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/casbin/casdoor-all-in-one/tags/?page_size=1&page=2" | sed 's/,/,\n/g' | grep '"name"' |awk -F '"' '{print $4}')

Note: the above command utilizes Linux tools like curl, sed, grep, awk. If you are using Windows, make sure you run it in a Linux-style shell like Git Shell or Cygwin. CMD or PowerShell won't work.

Visit: http://localhost:8000 in your browser. Log into Casdoor dashboard with the default global admin account: built-in/admin

admin
123

Option-2: Try with docker-compose

caution

docker pull casbin/casdoor:$(curl -sS "https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/casbin/casdoor/tags/?page_size=1&page=2" | sed 's/,/,\n/g' | grep '"name"' |awk -F '"' '{print $4}')

Create a conf/app.conf directory in the same level directory of the docker-compose.yml file, then copy app.conf from Casdoor. For more details about app.conf, you can see Via Ini file.

Create a separate database by docker-compose:

docker-compose up

That's it! 🛩️

Visit: http://localhost:8000 in your browser. Log into Casdoor dashboard with the default global admin account: built-in/admin

admin
123

Note: if you dive deeper into the docker-compose.yml, you may be puzzled by the environment variable we created in it called "RUNNING_IN_DOCKER". When database 'db' is created via docker-compose, it is available on localhost of your pc but not localhost of the casdoor container. To prevent you from the troubles caused by modifying app.conf which are pretty difficult for a new user, we provided this environment variable and pre-assigned it in docker-compose.yml. When this environment variable is true, localhost will be replaced with host.docker.internal so that you casdoor can visit the db.

Option-3 Try directly with standard image

caution

docker pull casbin/casdoor:$(curl -sS "https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/casbin/casdoor/tags/?page_size=1&page=2" | sed 's/,/,\n/g' | grep '"name"' |awk -F '"' '{print $4}')

tip

if it is not convenient to mount the configuration file to a container, using environment variables is also a possible solution.

example

docker run \
  -e driverName=mysql \
  -e dataSourceName='user:password@tcp(x.x.x.x:3306)/' \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  casbin/casdoor:latest

Create conf/app.conf, you can copy it from conf/app.conf in Casdoor. For more details about app.conf, you can see Via Ini file.

Then run

docker run  -p 8000:8000 -v /folder/of/app.conf:/conf casbin/casdoor:latest

Anyway just mount the app.conf to /conf/app.conf and start it.

Visit: http://localhost:8000 in your browser. Log into Casdoor dashboard with the default global admin account: built-in/admin

admin
123

Requirements​

Hardware​

OS​

Docker​

Get the image​

Option-1: Use the toy database​

Option-2: Try with docker-compose​

Option-3 Try directly with standard image​

Requirements

Hardware

OS

Docker

Get the image

Option-1: Use the toy database

Option-2: Try with docker-compose

Option-3 Try directly with standard image