Solr Docker Image

A docker image to run Apache Solr, based on the official Solr image. This image attempts to solve the problem of running a Solr image as a service in Gitlab CI.

See the Hub page for the available images and the Github repo to review the Dockerfiles.

Basic Usage

Pull and run the docker image:

$ docker pull osul/solr
$ docker run -p 8983:8983 osul/solr

Solr will now be available at http://localhost:8983/solr/. See the official Solr image documentation for more details.

Gitlab CI Integration

To use this image as a service in a Gitlab CI build, include the Solr schema/configuration files in your project's source code. Add osul/solr to the services key in your .gitlab-ci.yml

services:
  - osul/solr

Next, add the Solr configuration directory (within your project) and the Solr core name to the variables key:

variables:
  SOLR_CORE_NAME: "mycore"
  SOLR_CONFIG_DIR: "solr/config"

When the Solr image starts, it will clone a copy of the project under test, check out the current commit, and create a new Solr core using the configuration files in the SOLR_CONFIG_DIR. The Solr core will be available to the application at: http://osul__solr:8983/solr/mycore