How can I get scm manager running in a docker container to use an existing directory on the host system for configuration and repos

Question

When I start scm manager via docker:

docker run sdorra/scm-manager

How do I get scm manager to retrieve/store its configuration data and repositories from/to an existing directory on the main filesystem?

Answer 1

You can use docker volumes to achieve this. With a docker volume you can mount a folder from your host into your container. In the case of the scm-manager home directory this could look like this:

docker run -v /host/path:/var/lib/scm sdorra/scm-manager:1.60

The left side of the "-v" parameter specifies the path on the host filesystem and the right side specifies the path in the container.

Note: The scm-manager docker container uses a user with the uid 1000, so you have to be sure that the user can read and write this volume: chown -R 1000:1000 /host/path.