Docker OpenLDAP

This repository provides the Dockerfile and other files for building your own dockerized OpenLDAP server, making the process of setting up and deploying your own OpenLDAP server much easier.

In this configuration, the OpenLDAP server is mainly meant for keeping track of users and groups, thus by default, creating organizationalUnits of ou=people,dc=example,dc=org and ou=groups,dc=example,dc=org.

Getting started

First you should build and tag the container. By default, the included Containerfile compiles OpenLDAP version 2.6.12.

$ docker build -t registry.example.com/openldap:2.6.12 . -f Containerfile

After the container building has finished, you can spin up the container using following commands:

$ docker run \
    -p 127.0.0.1:389:389 \
    -v ./_volume/openldap/config:/usr/local/etc/slapd.d \
    -v ./_volume/openldap/data:/usr/local/var/openldap-data \
    -e LDAP_DOMAIN=example.org \
    -e ADMIN_COMMON_NAME=admin \
    -e ADMIN_PASSWORD=<password> \
    -e ORGANIZATION_NAME="My awesome organization" \
    registry.example.com/openldap:2.6.12

List of possible environment variables is as follows:

• LDAP_DOMAIN specifies the domain to use, when setting up the directory. For instance, when setting it to example.org, the distinguished name for your organization would become dc=example,dc=org
• ADMIN_COMMON_NAME specifies the administrator (root user's) common name part (by default set to: admin)
• ADMIN_PASSWORD specifies the administrator user's password
• ORGANIZATION_NAME specifies the organization name part of the organization domain entry.

For volumes, /usr/local/etc/slapd.d specifies the DIT database location for OpenLDAP configuration and /usr/local/var/openldap-data specifies the location to MDB database.