Dockerised Liferay Workspace

This repository has been created in order to give an example on how Docker containers can be easily managed inside Liferay Workspace using Gradle tasks. Please refer to this blog article for further details.

How to use

The docker-liferay-workspace-example is intended to be used in place of blade init command to create your Liferay Workspace. You can simply clone or download it on your workspace folder and start to play with it.

Description

Basically this project adds some Gradle tasks and properties to the original set provided by Liferay Workspace, in order to allow a simple container management. Those elements are commented below. Moreover, it adds some additional files:

• /docker/docker-compose.yml: Docker Compose file that defines a Docker environment (containers, networks, volumes)
• /configs/docker/portal-ext.properties: properties file that defines Liferay container properties. In particular, it defines the liferay-home path, that must refer to the container file system
• Dockerfile: defines the Liferay image created by the buildDockerImage Gradle task

Gradle Tasks

startDockerEnv

group: docker
type: Exec

Inits docker project environment

stopDockerEnv

group: docker
type: Exec

Shuts down docker project environment

buildDockerImage

group: docker
type: Exec

Builds a Liferay Docker image based on the current local environment

Gradle Properties

liferay.docker.container.prefix

type: string
default: liferay

Set the Docker Compose project name. All containers, networks and volumes created by Docker Compose will be prefixed with this name

liferay.docker.compose.path

type: string
default: /docker/docker-compose.yml

Set the Docker Compose file path. This file allows developers to start a set of Docker containers with a single gradle task

liferay.docker.image.name

type: string
default: liferay-portal:latest

Set the generated Docker image name. The image created by dockerBuildImage Gradle task will have this tag

liferay.docker.db.root.password

type: string
default: p4ssword

Set the root password for an external database container defined in Docker Compose file. Probably this property should be defined inside gradle-local.properties file, so that it can vary between different team members (see net.saliman.properties Gradle plugin)