Supported LXC Containers, by Symas Corp.

What's here?

OpenLDAP and related software, provided by Symas, containerized and ready for production use.

How to contact Symas for commercial support

You can always call us at: +1.650.963.7601 or email sales or support teams directly with questions. More on our support offerings can be found on our website.

Reach out to us, we're here to help.

Why use our images?

• Symas has, for over a two decades, built, maintained, and commercially supported the OpenLDAP codebase.
• All our work on OpenLDAP has always been, and will always be open-source. We are a commercial support company, here if and when you need us.
• We commit to promptly publish new versions of this chart for every release of the software going forward.
• Our images contain the latest bug fixes and features released, not just in OpenLDAP but in supporting libraries.
• We've based our containers on the amazing Bitnami containers existing work.
• We'd like to thank them for open sourcing their work allowing the community to benefit. Our shared philosophy makes us stronger.
• Because we are using the Bitnami container infrastructure and scripts this is a drop-in replacement for any existing use of the bitnami/openldap containers sharing the same version.
• We base our images on Bitnami's minideb a minimalist Debian-based container image that gives you a small base container image and the familiarity of a leading Linux distribution.

Why not just contribute to Bitnami?

We may eventually merge our work into Bitnami, for now we'd like to remain agile enough to build for platforms they don't (yet) support, like arm64, and to use supporting libraries (e.g. SASL) we've built that include fixes and features not yet in their mainstream counterparts.

Fundamentally, we're a company that supports OpenLDAP as our primary business model so it is important for us to own and support LXC (e.g. Docker, or containers) as a primary channel for our supported customers.

We know that Bitnami provides excelent OpenLDAP containers, we appreciate that, and you should feel confident using them. We know that because we're the people writing and maintaining the software in that container.

In any case, we'd like to thank Bitnami and recognize them for their excelent work building the tooling around a complex and highly-configurable product like OpenLDAP.

Symas Packaged OpenLDAP

We, at Symas, contribute to and maintain the OpenLDAP software as open source software. We work within the community of contributors to this project, that's how open source works. We don't sell licenses to the software, the software is free for anyone to use. We do provide commercial support for OpenLDAP, and in that capacity we've run across bugs that others may not have encountered. We fix those issues and contribute them back to OpenLDAP through the community process. Sometimes we find bugs impacting OpenLDAP in supporting libraries, and in those cases we fix those issues and offer them to the package maintainers. When that process isn't fast enough, we apply our fixes to a fork of the package and include that within our package of OpenLDAP. When that fix is upstreamed and released, we return to using the community provided library. All that is to say that it is possible that the Symas supplied packages include fixes that are not available in other builds of OpenLDAP unless those builds included our forks of those dependencies.

In addition, Symas sometimes includes packages or configuration by default that we've found useful to our customers.

Get an image

The recommended way to get any of the Symas LXC containers is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull symas/openldap

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. Common tags include:

• latest
• <version> (e.g. 2.6)

docker pull symas/openldap:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning this repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command.

git clone https://github.com/symas/containers.git
cd containers/openldap/2.6/debian-11
docker buildx build --progress=plain --no-cache --rm --platform linux/x86_64 --load -t symas/openldap:latest .

Run the application using Docker Compose

The main folder of each application contains a functional docker-compose.yml file. Run the application using it as shown below:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/symas/containers/main/openldap/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d

Retention policy

We retain (Symas DockerHub org) deprecated assets without changes for, at least, three months after the deprecation.

We may violate this policy to remove dangerous or otherwise particularily flawed containers for the safety of the community.

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to those container images. You can request new features by creating an issue, or submit a pull request with your contribution.

License

Copyright © 2023 VMware, Inc. Copyright © 2023 Symas, Corp.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.