Running Zabbix with Docker
Multiple docker images are available for Zabbix to suit a range of deployment topologies.
The Zabbix Appliance image is the basic all-in-one, good for local testing.
The docker-compose.yml is setup for running Zabbix appliance with MySQL data persisted in a volume.
It also starts a separate zabbix agent container that can monitor the zabbix appliance container itself. The agent container is linked the the server container so that the agent can perform active checks.
$ docker-compose up -d
On first startup, the web interface will be available on 0.0.0.0:80 with default credentials Admin/zabbix
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
251884f1a063 zabbix/zabbix-appliance:latest "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…" 5 minutes ago Up 5 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:10051->10051/tcp, 443/tcp dockerized_zabbix-app_1
2083160a135f zabbix/zabbix-agent:latest "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…" 5 minutes ago Up 5 minutes 10050/tcp dockerized_zabbix-agent_1
The agent hostname needed to be updated in order to find the agent container at zabbix-agent:10050:
Now we have basic monitoring of the zabbix server via the zabbix agent:
Shutting down and checking volumes
$ docker-compose down
$ docker volume ls | grep zapp
local dockerized_zapp-db
The zabbix_control.sh wraps up some simple commands to start and stop the appliance container, get logs and open a shell.
- Zabbix Container Images Overview
- Official Zabbbx Images - docker hub
- Official Zabbix Dockerfiles - github
- Installation from containers - docs