Hello world! The ability to run FreeIPA server in a container was recently improved by adding support for storing the server configuration and data in a volume, making it easier to backup the server, upgrade it to newer versions, as well as adding the ability to start a container as a replica of existing (containerized or non-containerized) IPA server.
Using IPA in a container can be an easy way to try IPA or test things on different OSes (there are multiple per-OS branches in the GitHub repo and multiple images built), as well as running IPA on a machine where it would otherwise clash with other software. It it still an unsupported release but working in multiple tests on our side, so we encourage our community members to try it out. We will welcome your comments about your experience with the code at https://github.com/adelton/docker-freeipa or automated build images at https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/adelton/freeipa-server/ README was amended to describe the new usage options. -- Jan Pazdziora Senior Principal Software Engineer, Identity Management Engineering, Red Hat -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project