Once you have Docker installed, follow these steps to get started with LabKey Community Edition:

1. Open a command line window and clone this repo locally git clone https://github.com/LabKey/ce-docker.git
2. CD to the cloned repo directory cd ./ce-docker
3. Start LabKey Community Edition using docker compose docker compose up community --detach
4. After a few minutes, LabKey Community Edition will have started, and you can log in to the application by opening a web browser and navigating to https://localhost:8443
5. You may see a warning about the connection being insecure, and need to click through 'advanced' or 'continue' to get to the setup wizard.
6. Using your web browser, complete the initial setup wizard.
7. Visit our docs page to learn more about how to get started using LabKey.
   

Stopping & Clean Up

1. To stop the instance docker compose down

2. To stop the instance and discard/clean up docker-compose down -v --remove-orphans

3. Some files are persisted locally and are not cleaned up. Deleting any of these may result in data loss. Be careful!

• mount/files contains files saved in LabKey
• mount/logs contains LabKey Server logs
• mount/pgdata contains the postgresql database files
• mount/modules file path used for custom modules

Upgrading Versions

We only publish tagged versions to Docker Hub (we don't publish a 'latest' tag). To upgrade to a new version of LabKey Community edition, you have two options:

1. Edit the docker-compose.yml file and update the image version to the LabKey version you wish to use.
   
   
2. Launch a new version with the docker compose up command line. export IDENT="labkeyteamcity/labkey-community:25.3.9" docker compose up community --detach