Configuring a Docker Container

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Before starting your container, you may want to add additional portal configurations. This could include things like

• Property overrides (e.g., portal-ext.properties)
• Marketplace app overrides
• App server configurations
• License files

You can do this by applying files (and their accompanying folder structures, if necessary) to your workspace’s configs/docker folder. This folder is treated as your Liferay Home for Docker development; you add additional files that overlay your workspace’s configs/common folder and your Liferay DXP container’s default configuration.

As an example, you’ll enable the Gogo shell for your container.

1. Add a portal-ext.properties file to your workspace’s configs/docker folder.

2. Add the following property to the portal-ext.properties file:

   module.framework.properties.osgi.console=0.0.0.0:11311
   

   This lets you access your container using Gogo shell via telnet session.

3. Start the container.

   Once the container is started, the configurations stored in configs/common and configs/docker are transferred to the build/docker/files folder, which applies all configurations to the container’s file system. For more information on workspace’s configs folder, see this section.

   Note: You can call the deployDocker Gradle task from your workspace’s root folder to initiate the Docker configuration transfer to the build/docker/files folder manually. It’s executed automatically when creating or starting the container.

You can now apply configurations to your Liferay DXP Docker container.