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# Traccar Docker Compose files
Docker Compose files to spin up an instance of Traccar.
# How to run
Add a `COMPOSE_ENV` file and save its location as a shell variable along with the location where this repo lives, here for example `/opt/containers/traccar` plus all other variables. At [env/fqdn_context.env.example](env/fqdn_context.env.example) you'll find an example environment file.
When everything's ready start Traccar with Docker Compose, otherwise head down to [Initial setup](#initial-setup) first.
## Environment
```
export COMPOSE_DIR='/opt/containers/traccar'
export COMPOSE_CTX='ux_vilnius'
export COMPOSE_PROJECT='traccar-'"${COMPOSE_CTX}"
export COMPOSE_FILE="${COMPOSE_DIR}"'/docker-compose.yml'
export COMPOSE_ENV=<add accordingly>
```
## Context
On your deployment machine create the necessary Docker context to connect to and control the Docker daemon on whatever target host you'll be using, for example:
```
docker context create fully.qualified.domain.name --docker 'host=ssh://root@fully.qualified.domain.name'
```
## Pull
Pull both Traccar and MySQL:
```
docker compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${COMPOSE_FILE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" --profile 'full' pull
```
## Copy to target
Copy images to target Docker host, that is assuming you deploy to a machine that itself has no network route to reach Docker Hub. Copying in its simplest form involves a local `docker save` and a remote `docker load`. Consider the helper mini-project [quico.space/Quico/copy-docker](https://quico.space/Quico/copy-docker) where [copy-docker.sh](https://quico.space/Quico/copy-docker/src/branch/main/copy-docker.sh) allows the following workflow:
```
images="$(docker compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${COMPOSE_FILE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" --profile 'full' config | grep -Pi -- 'image:' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq)"
while IFS= read -u 10 -r image; do
copy-docker "${image}" fully.qualified.domain.name
done 10<<<"${images}"
```
## Start and clean up
```
docker --context 'fully.qualified.domain.name' compose --project-name "${COMPOSE_PROJECT}" --file "${COMPOSE_FILE}" --env-file "${COMPOSE_ENV}" --profile 'full' up --detach
docker --context 'fully.qualified.domain.name' system prune -af
docker system prune -af
```
# Initial setup
We're assuming you run Docker Compose workloads with ZFS-based bind mounts. ZFS management, creating a zpool and setting adequate properties for its datasets is out of scope of this document.
## Datasets
Create ZFS datasets and set permissions as needed.
* Parent dateset
```
export "$(grep -Pi -- '^CONTEXT=' "${COMPOSE_ENV}")"
zfs create -o canmount=off zpool/data/opt
zfs create -o mountpoint=/opt/docker-data zpool/data/opt/docker-data
```
* Container-specific datasets
```
zfs create -p 'zpool/docker-data/traccar-'"${CONTEXT}"'/traccar/data'
zfs create -p 'zpool/docker-data/traccar-'"${CONTEXT}"'/traccar/config'
zfs create -p 'zpool/docker-data/traccar-'"${CONTEXT}"'/mysql/data'
zfs create -p 'zpool/docker-data/traccar-'"${CONTEXT}"'/mysql/config'
```
* Create subdirs
```
mkdir -p '/opt/docker-data/traccar-'"${CONTEXT}"'/'{'traccar/data/'{'data','logs'},'mysql/config/'{'docker-entrypoint-initdb.d','db'}}
```
This will create a directory structure like so:
```
traccar-loft/
├── mysql
│ ├── config
│ │ ├── db
│ │ └── docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
│ └── data
└── traccar
├── config
└── data
├── data
└── logs
```
* Change ownership for MySQL daemon
```
chown -R 999:999 '/opt/docker-data/traccar-'"${CONTEXT}"'/mysql/'*
```
## Additional files
Place both a `my.cnf` and `traccar.xml` file on target server. Use the directory structure at [build-context](build-context) as a guide, specifically at `docker-data`.
```
build-context/
├── mysql
│ └── docker-data
│ └── config
│ └── db
│ └── my.cnf
└── traccar
└── docker-data
└── config
└── traccar.xml
```
The [example my.cnf](build-context/mysql/docker-data/config/db/my.cnf) config file for MySQL follows [Traccar's recommendation for MySQL](https://www.traccar.org/mysql-optimization/) but uses 512 MiB of RAM instead of Traccar's 3 GiB example. Since we live in a world with MySQL 8.0.30+ we're using `innodb_redo_log_capacity` over Traccar's recommendation (as of Wednesday, March 5, 2025) of `innodb_log_file_size`. See also [MySQL 8.0 docs section "Configuring Redo Log Capacity (MySQL 8.0.30 or Higher)"](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-redo-log.html#innodb-modifying-redo-log-capacity).
In `docker-entrypoint-initdb.d` you can store database initialization scripts that are run when you start MySQL without any data. See also [MySQL 9.2 docs section "Running Additional Initialization Scripts"](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.2/en/docker-mysql-more-topics.html#docker-additional-init).
Config `traccar.xml` is a minimal working example file taken from the Traccar Docker image. See [Docker Hub traccar/traccar overview](https://hub.docker.com/r/traccar/traccar) section "Get default traccar.xml". In [our example traccar.xml](build-context/traccar/docker-data/config/traccar.xml) file the default H2 database is replaced with MySQL to match this repo.
When done head back up to [How to run](#how-to-run).