The OpenEMR community loves Docker. We eat and breath Docker. The OpenEMR dockers can be found on
dockerhub. There are two main categories of dockers for
OpenEMR, Production Dockers and Development Dockers. Production dockers are meant for production use
with tags such as 5.0.2 and latest. Development dockers are meant for development and include the
flex series.
Production dockers are meant for production use with tags such as 5.0.2 and latest and can be found
on dockerhub. Several example docker-compose.yml scripts are
discussed below.
An example docker-compose.yml script can be found at
docker/production/docker-compose.yml. After modifying the
script for your purposes, it can then be started with docker-compose up, which will then take about 5-10
minutes to complete. Note that this example is based on OpenEMR 6.0.0, which is considered development
until official release of version 6.0.0.
An example docker-compose.yml script for Raspberry Pi can be found at
docker/production-arm/docker-compose.yml. After modifying the
script for your purposes, it can then be started with docker-compose up, which will then take about 5-10
minutes to complete. Note that this example is based on OpenEMR 6.0.0, which is considered development
until official release of version 6.0.0.
Development dockers are meant for development and include the flex series and can be found on
dockerhub. It is strongly recommended to not use these dockers
for production purposes unless you know what you are doing. There are 2 OpenEMR development environments,
which are based on these development dockers. The main development environment is the Easy Development Docker
environment, which is documented at CONTRIBUTING.md;
note this environment can also be run on Raspberry Pi. The other development environment, which is much more
complex, is the Insane Development Docker environment, which is documented at
docker/development-insane/README.md.