Portainer

This section describes how to setup Papermerge using Portainer.

Step 1 - Update /etc/hosts file

Add to your /etc/hosts following content:

127.0.0.1       papermerge.local

Step 2 - Add Stack

Click on ‘Add stack’ as illustrated in picture below:

Step 3 - Fill in repository details

Fill in Name field (e.g. papermerge), select git Repository for Build method. Set following values for Repository URL and Compose path:

1. Repository URL with https://github.com/papermerge/papermerge-core

2. Compose path: docker/docker-compose.yml

Step 4 - Add environment variables

In environment variables section can either:

1. insert variables one by one (simple mode)

2. paste all variables as one single text file (advanced mode)

Warning

Currently docker tag latest points to latest 2.1.0a<N> version which is not yet production ready.

Note

See all available docker tags in GitHub packages

For this guide we use option 2. Paste following text in environment variables section:

APP_IMAGE=ghcr.io/papermerge/papermerge
APP_TAG=latest
PAPERMERGE_JS_IMAGE=ghcr.io/papermerge/papermerge.js
PAPERMERGE_JS_TAG=latest

USE_HOSTNAME=papermerge.local

DB_USER=postgres
DB_NAME=postgres
DB_PASSWORD=postgres
DB_HOST=db
DB_PORT=5432

REDIS_HOST=redis
REDIS_PORT=6379

ES_HOSTS=es
ES_PORT=9200

SECRET_KEY=alsdkalsdjlaksdj90823423!KLKJLkjkjlkjlKLPOgrwqna

SUPERUSER_USERNAME=admin
SUPERUSER_EMAIL=admin@mail.com
SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=admin

APP_IMAGE is docker image for Papermerge REST API backend

APP_TAG is Papermerge REST API backend docker image version. As of writing this documentation Papermerge latest version 2.1 is in early alpha version. To see if there are newer version check papermerge package on github.

PAPERMERGE_JS is docker image for Papermerge frontend i.e. fancy user interface (written in javascript)

PAPERMERGE_JS_TAG is Papermerge frontend docker image version. As of writing this documentation Papermerge latest version 2.1 is in early alpha version. To see if there are newer version check papermerge js package on github.

ES_HOSTS and ES_PORT are hosts and port for elasticsearch service

SECRET_KEY A secret text for a particular Papermerge installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value

Note

Papermerge docker images are published on Github’s Package section for Papermerge

Step 5 - Deploy the stack

Click on ‘Deploy the stack’ button at the very bottom of the screen:

Now you can see Papermerge stack in the list and if you click you will see all Papermerge services running:

Papermerge stack as seen in stack list

Papermerge services up and running

Now you can access your Papermerge instance by opening your web browser and pointing it to address http://papermerge.local:

Sign in screen available at http://papermerge.local

Sign in using following credentials:

• username: admin

• password: admin

Note

username/password were provided by variables SUPERUSER_USERNAME and SUPERUSER_PASSWORD respectively.

Enjoy!