The Docker solution for SIA Connect comes orchestrated as a composer project which contains 3 images.

• Core (primary SIA Connect software)
• Database (MySQL database for configuration, data, etc.)
• Web (Apache2 for Web GUI portal)

In addition the solution also comes as a Docker single image containing all above components in one container and as Windows executables if you are new to Docker and need tools to simplify the management.

In this articles you learn how to run the solution orchestrated in a Docker composer project. 

Download SIA Connect as Docker composer project

Using the Docker composer

After downloaded the composer project you need to carry out the below instructions which we will walk through in details:

• Modify system password
• Executing the Docker composer project
• Updating images

Setting system password

The system password must be set as the first thing, before running the Docker composer project. 

•  🗎 Open .env, which is the Docker composer environment file
• ✍🏻 Content looks something as below. Edit the parameter DATABASEPASSWORD to a suitable password.

DATABASEPASSWORD=secret_password
DATABASEHOST=siadatabase

Starting the composer

To start the Docker composer with the project run the below command:

docker compose -p sia_connect -f docker-compose.yml --env-file .env up -d

if you are on a Linux OS you can also execute the helper script included in the package:

./start_siaconnect.sh

If you need to run with a web database viewer, phpMyAdmin, you can start it in debug mode by added --profile debug to the command.

Stopping the composer

To stop the container run the following command:

docker compose -p sia_connect stop

or if you are on Linux you can run the included helper script:

./stop_siaconnect.sh

Updating the composer images

When the image gets updated you will be noticed in the GUI portal, but in order to update the Docker images and afterwards recreate the container you will need to execute a few some Docker compose commands.

Stop the containers in the composer

docker compose -p sia_connect down

and pull the latest images. The composer project points to latest tag of the images. If you need a specific version this should be specified in the docker-compose.yml file

docker compose -p sia_connect pull

or if you are on Linux you can run the included helper script to update the images:

./update_siaconnect.sh

Now you can start the Docker composer project again and the containers are updated with the latest images.