Geonetwork with Postgis database

Run Postgis with docker-compose

Contains

• postgis container
• a bridge network on 172.18.0.0/16 subnet

Database is persisted on host at /docker-data/postgis so this directory must be created first i.e. mkdir -p /docker-data/postgis

docker-compose up -d 

Notes:

• The postgis container's pg_hba.conf files only allows ip connections from a given set of CIDRs (one of which is 172.18.0.0/16). This is why a subnet with this CIDR is created and then used by the geonetwork container.
• Postgis must be running when the geonetwork container is started.
• The postgis database can be truncated anytime by removing the host-persisted data rm -rf /docker-data/postgis and restarting the docker-compose stack and the geonetwork container.

Run up geonetwork container

docker run \
  --name geonetwork \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  --network geonetworkpostgis_net \
  -e POSTGRES_DB_HOST=postgis \
  -e POSTGRES_DB_PORT=5432 \
  -e POSTGRES_DB_USERNAME=docker \
  -e POSTGRES_DB_PASSWORD=docker \
  geonetwork:postgres

Notes:

• Username/Password: admin/admin

Browse geonetwork database

docker exec -i -t geonetworkpostgis_postgis_1 /bin/bash
psql -h localhost -U docker gis #<-- password 'docker'

gis$ \c geonetwork
geonetwork$ \d+

Documentation of containers

Geonetwork container: https://hub.docker.com/_/geonetwork/

Postgis container: https://github.com/kartoza/docker-postgis

Issues:

• geonetwork container won't run if it's databases have already been initialized