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. An example docker-compose.yml script can be
found in the docker directory at docker/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.
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
and contrib/util/docker/README.md. The other
development environment, which is much more complex, is the Insane Development Docker environment, which is
documented at contrib/util/docker/README.md.