The intention of this repository is to provide a lightweight container running etherpad on alpine.

In order to build this container, run the following command:

docker build -t burkeazbill/alpine-etherpad .

Etherpad can be started from the command line of your docker host using the following command:

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --name alpine-etherpad -v etherpad:/opt/etherpad/data -p 80:9001 burkeazbill/alpine-etherpad .

After that, you should be able to access etherpad at http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost

Admin Login http://127.0.0.1/admin or http://localhost/admin

• Default Username: admin
• Default Password: changeme1
• Username and passwords can be configured in the settings.json

NOTES:

• If you already have a web server running on your Docker Host, change -p 80:9001 to an available port such as 82 like this: -p 82:9001
• A persistent volume named etherpad gets created using the command line shown above to store the data file

To remove the persistent volume:

docker volume rm etherpad

To list persistent volumes:

docker volume ls

To view location and options of persistent volume:

docker volume inspect etherpad

Version 1.2

• Fixed issue that prevented admin login from working properly (incorrect settings.json was being used)
• Updated Dockerfile to create symbolic link from /opt/etherpad/settings.json -> /opt/etherpad/data/settings.json to allow for custom settings to be presisted between containers
• Updated sequence of Dockerfile commands to address issues above
• Added more documentation to this page

Version 1.1

• Updated Dockerfile to use multi-stage build - image size now 174MB
• Added label for version

Version 1.0

• Simple Alpine container running etherpad using development db type "dirty"
• Container currently runs as root

• Further consolidate image using multi-stage build (current size is 362MB vs debian-etherpad at 667MB)
• Re-configure to run as a regular user instead of root
• Provide options to use alternate db's
• Provide options to use SSL
• Write docker-compose.yaml