Getting started with Hue in 2 minutes with Docker

Published on 18 December 2015 in - 2 minutes read - Last modified on 06 March 2021

Update March 2019: this post was refresh in Hue in Docker

 

The current way to play with Hue is often to go on demo.gethue.com or download a Virtual Machine. However, these have some limitations. Using Docker instead provides a much better experience as it:

  • is lighter and more robust than a VM
  • gives admin permissions
  • has much faster execution

Docker makes it perfect for quick starting on Hue development or pointing Hue to your current cluster and giving it a try. This is for this that we now provide a Docker image of Hue!

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Please find below a video showing how to start Hue with Docker on a Mac and instructions for Linux users.

 

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Get the docker image

They are two ways: just pull the latest from the Internet or build it yourself from the Hue repository.

Pull the image from Docker Hub

sudo docker pull gethue/hue:latest

Build the image

cd tools/docker/hue-base

sudo docker build -rm -t gethue/hue:latest .

Running the image

docker run -it -p 8888:8888 gethue/hue:latest bash

This opens a bash to the root of the project. From there you can run the development version of Hue with the command

./build/env/bin/hue runserver_plus 0.0.0.0:8888

Hue should then be up and running on your default Docker IP on the port 8888, so usually http://192.168.99.100:8888.

Note If 192.168.99.100 does not work, get the IP of the docker container with:

sudo docker ps

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

b7950388c1db gethue/hue:latest "bash" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 22/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8888->8888/tcp agitated_mccarthy

Then get inet addr, so in our case http://172.17.0.1:8888:

sudo docker exec -it b7950388c1db /sbin/ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:42:ac:11:00:01

inet addr:172.17.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0

inet6 addr: fe80::42:acff:fe11:1/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:10626 (10.6 KB) TX bytes:648 (648.0 B)

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Next

You can then configure Hue and start using it!

Read more about how to configure Hue. The development version uses the configuration file desktop/conf/pseudo-distributed.ini.


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