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.

Building slapd

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

Data in this container is considered essential, since it influences almost all other services we run.

We recently discovered that simply copying all the data from data DOES NOT WORK, therefore we included scripts for backing up the slapd database into a compact .ldif format.

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

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