Help:Using Docker

Docker is a software and infrastructure hub to help with the deployment of components and services inside virtual containers.

For users interested in using or supporting an effort to deploy Semantic MediaWiki via Docker see the following issue which collects related activities:

• Semantic MediaWiki: GitHub issue 1218– Docker support

Talks

	Has speaker	Has conference	Has description
Wikibase4Research	Lukas Günther	MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025	Learn how our Docker-based solution helps set up and manage research databases using MediaWiki, Wikibase, and their extensions through a configuration system.
State of Canasta Fall 2024	Jeffrey Wang	MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024	Updates to Canasta since MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Wikibase4Research: A toolbox for Wikibase Users and Developers	Kolja Bailly Lukas Günther	MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024	Wikibase4Reserach is a fast and easy customizable docker pipeline to setup knowledge systems like Mediawiki, SemanticMediawiki, Wikibase or SemanticWikibase within minutes.
Wikibase4Research guided installation. Bring your own data, get your own wiki	Kolja Bailly Lukas Günther	MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024	We provide a guided installation session to assist people in the setup of a new knowledge system or transfer their existing data and config to our Docker-based installation pipeline for Wikibase4Research.
State of Canasta, Fall 2023	Jeffrey Wang	SMWCon Fall 2023	Canasta updates for the second half of 2023.
ConfIDent - a SMW-powered platform for academic events	Alexander Gesinn Julian Franken	SMWCon Fall 2022	ConfIDent makes descriptive metadata on conferences and other formats of scientific events permanently accessible in a high quality through automated processes and scientific data curating.
SMW + Canasta and the State of Canasta	Jeffrey Wang	SMWCon Fall 2022	How Canasta + SMW work together. The latest updates from the Canasta Project. Information on future development of Canasta.
MediaWiki and Docker	Cindy Cicalese	SMWCon Fall 2021	Half-day workshop on using MediaWiki with Docker
MediaWiki and Docker - discussion	Cindy Cicalese	SMWCon Fall 2021	Half-day workshop on using MediaWiki and Docker
Using Docker in Dev, Production and AWS	Gregory Rundlett	SMWCon Fall 2021	How can you use Docker containers to develop MediaWiki in a way that is compatible with production environments including hosting on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Benefits of running MediaWiki in a pertinent dockerized setup	Lex Sulzer	SMWCon Fall 2018	You buy a dishwasher — not 1000 parts and a screwdriver
Dockerizing Semantic MediaWiki	Wolfgang Fahl	SMWCon Fall 2015	This workshop shows us how to use Docker in connection with Semantic MediaWiki.

Existing Docker solutions

• Semantic Mediawiki Docker Images (github.com/NaimKabir)
• pymediawikidocker (github.com/WolfgangFahl)
• BITPlan Profiwiki - with preconfigured MetaModel and Loadable Models for your usecases (github.com/BITPlan)
• SMW docker image (github.com/mfalda/)
• Composer based with MariaDB and Nginx (github.com/toniher)
• Composer based Datencockpit (github.com/soudis)
• Single image Ubuntu 16.04 + Mediawiki 1.27.5 and SMW 2.5.8 (github.com/BITPlan)
• Using "docker-compose" to generate a docker image with a Semantic MediaWiki (gitlab.com/hcc23)
• A Docker image for Semantic Mediawiki with some extensions (gitlab.com/pleio)
• A docker container for running SemanticMediaWiki in a kubernetes-styled context (github.com/wirehead)
• Docker scripts for creating a Semantic MediaWiki (github.com/MfN-Berlin) / with the extensions and layout as used at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• Canasta - full-featured MediaWiki stack on Docker. Includes Semantic MediaWiki packaged, only need to enable it with enableSemantics().