Dockerized Tilemill

This Dockerfile builds an image that runs a tilemill server. It is not optimized for space and takes up almost 2GB.

Run with docker-compose

Install docker and docker-compose and clone this repo. Change line 11 (below volumes: in the docker-compose.yaml file so that it points to your directory where your map projects are or just an empty folder. The line should then read /your/folder:/root/Documents/MapBox

Then do this to run a tilemill server on your local machine:

$ cd /path/to/this/git/repo
$ docker-compose up

You can use tilemill in your browser under 127.0.0.1:20009.

Stop the server again with Ctrl+C. If you want to keep the server running in the background, use $ docker-compose up -d. You can then stop the server only with $ docker-compose down from the same directory.

Without docker-compose

Build

Simply use docker build and tag it anyway you like (this project is not on dockerhub):

$ cd /path/to/this/git/repo/context
$ docker build -t schachmett/tilemill .

This builds tilemill on top of Ubuntu 20.04 and nodejs 6.11 (and throws a lot of deprecation warnings). The config.json file for tilemill inside the image then configures it to be a server and listen on port 0.0.0.0.

Run

Mount your MapBox project folder (if you don't have one already, just make a new empty folder) into the container with -v.

You can also link in a postgres server with the --link option. For example you can use this docker image which can be fed .pbf files with this other docker image. There is a nice tutorial in the corresponding github repo.

This is the command to run the tilemill server the first time then:

$ cd /path/to/this/git/repo
$ docker run \
  --name tilemill \
  -d \
  -p 127.0.0.1:20008:20008 -p 127.0.0.1:20009:20009 \
  --link postgres-osm:pg \		# optional, has to be running first
  -v /path/to/your/mapbox/projects:/root/Documents/MapBox \
  schachmett/tilemill:latest

Use

After running the first time, you can stop the container using $ docker stop tilemill and start it again with $ docker start tilemill. Pay attention that you did not move the mapbox project folder, though. If you linked in a postgres database server, start that one first.