OpenRefine Docker Containers

I had a go at building a couple of docker containers for OpenRefine, one from the latest release and one from the latest code on github:

• psychemedia/docker-openrefine: latest release version
• psychemedia/docker-openrefine: recent build from github source

In order to create the virtual machine, you should:

• install boot2docker
• run boot2docker
• Either: to run with a project directory solely within the container, in the boot2docker terminal, enter the command docker run --name openrefine -d -p 3334:3333 psychemedia/openrefine
• Or: to run with a project directory mounted from a shared folder on the host, in the boot2docker terminal, enter the command docker run -d -p 3334:3333 -v /path/to/yourSharedDirectory:/mnt/refine --name openrefine psychemedia/openrefine
• Or: to run with a project directory in a linked data volume, in the boot2docker terminal, enter the command docker run -d -p 3334:3333 -v /mnt/refine --name openrefine psychemedia/openrefine

(To use the latest release rather than a recent build use psychemedia/docker-openrefine rather than psychemedia/openrefine.)

The port number you will be able to find OpenRefine on is given by the first number set in the flag -p NNNN:3333. To access OpenRefine via port 3334, use -p 3334:3333 etc.

OpenRefine will then be available via your browser at the URL http://IPADDRESS:NNNN. To find the required value of IPADDRESS can be found using the command boot2docker ip

The returned IP address (eg 192.168.59.103) is the IP address you can find OpenRefine on, for example: http://192.168.59.103:3334.

PS for a Dockerfile in the current directory, to build an image from the Dockerfile, use something like:

docker build -t myname/mycontainer .