slapd

Slapd offers a LDAP server, which we mostly use for authentication of various services. Therefore, a lot of services have a direct (or indirect) dependency on this image.

Getting the image

This image is automatically build and pushed to the docker hub. Therefore getting the image should be as easy as running

docker pull zombi/ldap

Building slapd

It is also possible to manually build this image from this repository.

docker build -t zombi/ldap .

Running slapd

Copy over example configuration

cp docker-compose.yml{.example,}

run the service

docker-compose up -d

Backing up data

State stored in this container is essential to many other services, that use authentication and authorization. Therefore you should think about backing up the LDAP database in regular intervals.

simply copying all the data from data MAY NOT WORK, as there could be race conditions leading to database corruption during the backup. The recommended way is to use the included script for backing up the database into a compact .ldif plain text file.

running contrib/create-ldap-backup.sh will create two files:

• conf.ldif is a backup of the configuration.
• data.ldif contains all the saved datasets.