Today, I’d like to announce that my most popular Docker Image derjudge/confluence, a batteries-included solution to get Atlassian Confluence up and running with a mature database (PostgreSQL) as storage backend in seconds, has been fixed and updated.
- It ships with the most recent version of Confluence now, which is 6.8.1.
The image was not updated since Confluence version 6.0.2 before … sorry for that! - PostgreSQL version was updated to 9.6.
Since Atlassian has decided to finally support this version, I declared it to be the version of choice in my image, too. It was set to be 9.4 before. - JAVA version was updated to 1.8.0_162.
This has been 1.8.0_112 before. - Underlying Debian release was updated to “stretch”.
This was “jessie” before.
I have to admit this had not really received some love, recently … but to my defense: I do not use it for hosting Confluence myself, currently. Not that I do not like to taste my own poison, but the infrastructural environment my hosting is built up in does not need it, currently. So I do not really realize if anything breaks (which was the case with PostgreSQL not launching, recently).
Also, nobody got in touch with me, telling something is wrong; the first note on this issue (PostgreSQL not working) I received by mail on 2018-04-12 at 11:04 CEST (thank you, Michael Bykovski from //SEIBERT/MEDIA!); on 2018-04-13 at 20:13 CEST the fix has been made, the formerly listed updates were applied, a new Image tag was created for this new release and the image was built, successfully.
I wonder a bit why nobody has done before: The Image has 50K pulls (WOW – thank you!! ✌), the PostgreSQL issue seems to has been in there since December 2016 (!) and both, my E-Mail address and the link to my source repository which has an issues reporting feature are both prominently available to the images Docker Hub page.
Guys: I can only fix things I know of, so:
Please utilize the tools offered to get in touch!
I hope I’ll find the time to push newer versions more often, proactively in the future. If I miss something: Feel free and actually invited, to poke me! ?
Born in 1982, Marc Richter is an IT enthusiast since 1994. He became addicted when he first put his hands on their family’s PC and never stopped investigating and exploring new things since then.
He is married to Jennifer and a proud father of two wonderful children.
His current professional focus is DevOps and Python development.
An exhaustive bio can be found in this blog post.