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Ignition Dev Environment using Docker Compose

Use docker compose with the following file/text to set up a development environment running on port 8088 with a generic login of admin/password.

Feel free to change the exposed/mapped port numbers (left of the colon) and the password for the gateway and the username and passwords for the database as needed/required.

You can also change from the Ignition image latest version to a specific version or the nightly development branch using the following as examples:

  • inductiveautomation/ignition:latest
  • inductiveautomation/ignition:8.1
  • inductiveautomation/ignition:8.1.25
  • inductiveautomation/ignition:nightly
version: '3'
services:
  ignition:
    image: inductiveautomation/ignition:latest
    ports:
      - 8088:8088
    environment:
      - GATEWAY_MODULES_ENABLED=alarm-notification,logix-driver,modbus-driver-v2,opc-ua,perspective,reporting,sql-bridge,symbol-factory,tag-historian,vision,web-browser,web-developer
	  - ACCEPT_IGNITION_EULA=Y
	  - GATEWAY_RESTORE_DISABLED=true
	  - GATEWAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
	  - IGNITION_EDITION=standard
	  - TZ=America/Chicago
	  - DISABLE_QUICKSTART=true
    volumes:
      - ignition_data:/usr/local/bin/ignition/data
    networks:
      ignition:

  db:
    image: mariadb:latest
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
    environment:
      - MARIADB_DATABASE=ignition
      - MARIADB_USER=ignition
      - MARIADB_PASSWORD=password
      - MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
    networks:
      ignition:
      
networks:
  ignition:
    driver: bridge
  
volumes:
  ignition_data:
  db_data:

To connect Ignition to the database, use the following connection string in the connection configuration:

jdbc:mariadb://db:3306/ignition
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