Modifying the Docker containers

By default, dkan-tools will run docker containers with everything needed for a DKAN site to run.

Sometimes we need to modify those docker containers.

A common example of these kinds of modification is adding an environment variable to the web, or cli containers.

dkan-tools provides a mechanism to do just this.

The configuration that dkan-tools uses to start the docker containers is in assets/docker in the dkan-tools repo.

To make changes to that configuration, you can add a file named docker-compose.overrides.yml to the src/docker directory in your project.

Any valid docker-compose configuration can be added to that file and it will be merged with the default configuration from assets/docker/docker-compose.common.yml before the containers are created.