Running with Poor or No Internet Connectivity (docker)

This method explains how to copy docker images from one machine to another (via USB/network/etc) without relying on a docker hub service.

Installing Bahmni using docker-compose would require better internet connectivity since the individual Bahmni services/application images (odoo, openmrs, reports, implementer interface etc) needs to be downloaded on the host machine before running the containers. This would be a challenge for facilities where there is poor to no internet connectivity. Please follow below steps as a work-around to perform the installation

Download and create archive backup for all Bahmni application images at the location where you have internet connectivity

docker pull bahmni/bahmni-web
docker save bahmni/bahmni-web > bahmni_web.tar

If you have capacity constrains, you can also gzip the archive and make the backup smaller

docker save bahmni/bahmni-web | gzip > bahmni_web.tar.gz

Note: please check the bahmni docker-compose for the list of services/application images that you would need to download and create archive e.g. bahmni/openmrs, bahmni/implementer-interface etc. Also note that if you prefer a specific version of the image then add a tag e.g. docker pull bahmni/bahmni-web:1.0.0

Once you have the archives, you can easily port these into usb hard drive or pen drive
You can then mount the usb pen drive to your host machine and load docker images from the archive

docker load --input bahmni_web.tar

# Show all docker images on the machine
docker images

Once all the images are loaded onto the host machine, you can follow the usual docker compose setup steps to run Bahmni.

Running Bahmni On Docker